R help - Jan 2019 - g++ error causes non-zero exit status for package installation

dear community,

i get a *non-zero exit status* installing the survey-package in R version
3.5.2 on ubuntu 18.04. the problem seems to be related to *g++* and/or the
package *minqa*. in the output of the installation procedure i found the
following g++ related lines:

g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG
-I"/home/winfried/rlibs/Rcpp/include"
-f
[...]
g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o
minqa.so altm
[...]
g++: error: R: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
g++: error: version: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
g++: error: 3.5.2: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
g++: error: (2018-12-20): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

can someone help or point me in a direction? several packages, that i use
frequently, are conserned (survey, lme4, effects)

best, winfried

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On 4 January 2019 at 23:23, Winfried Moser wrote:
| dear community,
| 
| i get a *non-zero exit status* installing the survey-package in R version
| 3.5.2 on ubuntu 18.04. the problem seems to be related to *g++* and/or the
| package *minqa*. in the output of the installation procedure i found the
| following g++ related lines:
| 
| g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG
-I"/home/winfried/rlibs/Rcpp/include"
| -f
| [...]
| g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o
| minqa.so altm
| [...]
| g++: error: R: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
| g++: error: version: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
| g++: error: 3.5.2: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
| g++: error: (2018-12-20): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
| 
| can someone help or point me in a direction? several packages, that i use
| frequently, are conserned (survey, lme4, effects)

Wrong mailing list. Please subscribe to r-sig-debian and post there.

Someone posted a similar looking error recently (in a GitHub issue I can't
find now) but we did not solve it.  Somehow the call goes funky meaning that
the values in /etc/R/Makeconf got altted or affected or corrupted. No idea
why -- thousands of people use R on Ubuntu daily, myself included.

The good new is that you can (and maybe should !) consider prebuilt
binaries. These packages are all in Ubuntu as r-cran-survey, r-cran-lme4,
r-cran-effects -- and the Rutter PPAs give you even newer version. Read the
first four paragraphs, and particularly the fourth, of

   https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html

and enjoy the availability of 4000+ r-cran-* binary packages.

I am still interested in understanding the bug report but please bring it to
r-sig-debian.

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

You would get these errors ("R: file or directory not found, version: file
or directory not found...") if you had a ~/.Rprofile file containing the
line 'cat(version$version.string, sep="\n").

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 1:23 AM Winfried Moser <winfried.moser at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> dear community,
>
> i get a *non-zero exit status* installing the survey-package in R version
> 3.5.2 on ubuntu 18.04. the problem seems to be related to *g++* and/or the
> package *minqa*. in the output of the installation procedure i found the
> following g++ related lines:
>
> g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG
-I"/home/winfried/rlibs/Rcpp/include"
> -f
> [...]
> g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o
> minqa.so altm
> [...]
> g++: error: R: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> g++: error: version: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> g++: error: 3.5.2: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> g++: error: (2018-12-20): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
>
> can someone help or point me in a direction? several packages, that i use
> frequently, are conserned (survey, lme4, effects)
>
> best, winfried
>
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On 5 January 2019 at 09:14, William Dunlap via R-help wrote:
| You would get these errors ("R: file or directory not found, version:
file
| or directory not found...") if you had a ~/.Rprofile file containing the
| line 'cat(version$version.string, sep="\n").

Well spotted -- very much so. That is bound to break use within src/Makevars
and alike. If you must do something in ~/.Rprofile either make it silent, or
make it conditional based on if (interactive()) { ...that_code_here... }

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org