Can not install RcppEigen, RcppEigen.h: No such file or directory

[pati-ni]

I can't install RcppEigen in the latest R 4.3.1. It complains about the RcppEigen.h file

Here is the log:

trying URL 'https://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/src/contrib/RcppEigen_0.3.3.9.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1470790 bytes (1.4 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.4 MB

* installing *source* package ‘RcppEigen’ ...
** package ‘RcppEigen’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
using C compiler: ‘gcc (GCC) 13.1.1 20230429’
using C++ compiler: ‘g++ (GCC) 13.1.1 20230429’
g++ -std=gnu++17 -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG  -I'/home/main/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/Rcpp/include' -I/usr/local/include   -O3 -g -fpic  -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r/src=/usr/src/debug/r -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects  -c RcppEigen.cpp -o RcppEigen.o
RcppEigen.cpp:22:10: fatal error: RcppEigen.h: No such file or directory
   22 | #include <RcppEigen.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [/usr/lib64/R/etc/Makeconf:200: RcppEigen.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppEigen’
* removing ‘/home/main/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/RcppEigen’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpTzupPl/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("RcppEigen") :
  installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status

Here is my sessionInfo():

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Arch Linux

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.11.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.11.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.1 tools_4.3.1    pbdZMQ_0.3-9

[eddelbuettel]

Cannot reproduce, and would of course have heard from CRAN too if it was generalizable. Eg in a standard container that is Debian based:

edd@rob:~$ docker run --rm -ti r-base R

R version 4.2.3 (2023-03-15) -- "Shortstop Beagle"
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> install.packages("RcppEigen")
install.packages("RcppEigen")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘Rcpp’

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rcpp_1.0.10.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2936173 bytes (2.8 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 2.8 MB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RcppEigen_0.3.3.9.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1470790 bytes (1.4 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.4 MB

* installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ...
** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c api.cpp -o api.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c attributes.cpp -o attributes.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c barrier.cpp -o barrier.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c date.cpp -o date.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c module.cpp -o module.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c rcpp_init.cpp -o rcpp_init.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o Rcpp.so api.o attributes.o barrier.o date.o module.o rcpp_init.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-Rcpp/00new/Rcpp/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (Rcpp)
* installing *source* package ‘RcppEigen’ ...
** package ‘RcppEigen’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'   -I../inst/include -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c RcppEigen.cpp -o RcppEigen.o
[... 
     a million lines with noise compiler messages removed .
...]
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'    -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-4.2.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c init.c -o init.o
g++ -std=gnu++14 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppEigen.so RcppEigen.o RcppExports.o fastLm.o init.o -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-RcppEigen/00new/RcppEigen/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (RcppEigen)

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/Rtmpc992c4/downloaded_packages’
> 

[eddelbuettel]

Try editing PKG_CXXFLAGS = -I../inst/include in src/Makevars to make it PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I../inst/include. You can see in my build log that the -I../inst/include (that we need) is there C++14 use.

[eddelbuettel]

I very strongly suspect it is something with Arch, but I cannot put my finger on it. When I use this quick settings file ~/.R/Makevars to force g++-13 (as you have) and C++17 (as your build uses) it still works:

XTRAFLAGS=-Wno-ignored-attributes

CXXFLAGS=               $(DEBUG_OPTIM) -Wall -pipe $(PEDANTIC) $(XTRAFLAGS) $(LTO)

VER=-13
CC=gcc$(VER)
CXX=g++$(VER) -std=c++17

as we can see:

root@e13e6aea57a3:/tmp/RcppEigen# rm src/*.so src/*.o
root@e13e6aea57a3:/tmp/RcppEigen# R CMD INSTALL .
* installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
* installing *source* package ‘RcppEigen’ ...
** package ‘RcppEigen’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
using C compiler: ‘gcc-13 (Debian 13.1.0-6) 13.1.0’
using C++ compiler: ‘g++-13 (Debian 13.1.0-6) 13.1.0’
g++-13 -std=c++17 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'    -I../inst/include -fpic   -Wall -pipe  -Wno-ignored-attributes  -c RcppEigen.cpp -o RcppEigen.o
g++-13 -std=c++17 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'    -I../inst/include -fpic   -Wall -pipe  -Wno-ignored-attributes  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++-13 -std=c++17 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'    -I../inst/include -fpic   -Wall -pipe  -Wno-ignored-attributes  -c fastLm.cpp -o fastLm.o
gcc-13 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG  -I'/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include'     -fpic  -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/r-base-O3lIg6/r-base-4.3.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c init.c -o init.o
g++-13 -std=c++17 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppEigen.so RcppEigen.o RcppExports.o fastLm.o init.o -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-RcppEigen/00new/RcppEigen/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (RcppEigen)
root@e13e6aea57a3:/tmp/RcppEigen# 

That still uses the (current) rocker/r-base container to which I added g++-13 gfortan-13 r-cran-rcpp. (The latter only to no have had to build it, it's quick as seen above.)

[pati-ni]

Try editing PKG_CXXFLAGS = -I../inst/include in src/Makevars to make it PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I../inst/include. You can see in my build log that the -I../inst/include (that we need) is there C++14 use.

Yes, this was Arch related and also affected other packages with similar include errors. Adding PKG_CXXFLAGS = -I../inst/include to .R/Makevars fixed it. Thanks for the help

[eddelbuettel]

Thanks for confirming. Given that I am also the R maintainer for Debian: any idea what happened and how R (accidently) got built on Arch in a way that made the PKG_CXXFLAGS from src/Makevars be ignored?

[pati-ni]

Sorry for the delayed reply.

Actually the problem was system specific. In my ~/.R/Makevars I had PKG_CXXFLAGS = -O3 -g. It seems as if this overrides the package-specific options src/Makevars. I did not know that. No problem with the upstream distributions of R as far as I can tell.

[eddelbuettel]

That would do it -- in general do not set variable named PKG_* in ~/.R/Makevars. Everything named PKG_* belongs in the version in the package.

In ~/.R/Makevars only set (and specialise) what R has in its own $R_HOME/etc/Makeconf.