install Acumos package in R - r

Question

When I tried to install Acumos package in R, I failed. It seems it is due to protobuf and most particulary common.h file. I use R version 3.5.1.
install.packages("acumos",,c("http://r.research.att.com","http://rforge.net"))
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘RProtoBuf’
trying URL 'http://r.research.att.com/src/contrib/RProtoBuf_0.4.12.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1263377 bytes (1.2 MB)
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downloaded 1.2 MB
trying URL 'http://rforge.net/src/contrib/acumos_0.2-7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 9383 bytes
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downloaded 9383 bytes
* installing *source* package ‘RProtoBuf’ ...
** package ‘RProtoBuf’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
- checking for g++... g++
- checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
- checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
- checking for suffix of executables...
- checking whether we are cross compiling... no
- checking for suffix of object files... o
- checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
- checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
- checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
- checking for gcc... gcc
- checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
- checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
- checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
- checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
- checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
- checking for pkg-config... no
- checking for protoc... yes
- checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
- checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
- checking for ANSI C header files... yes
- checking for sys/types.h... yes
- checking for sys/stat.h... yes
- checking for stdlib.h... yes
- checking for string.h... yes
- checking for memory.h... yes
- checking for strings.h... yes
- checking for inttypes.h... yes
- checking for stdint.h... yes
- checking for unistd.h... yes
- checking google/protobuf/stubs/common.h usability... no
- checking google/protobuf/stubs/common.h presence... no
- checking for google/protobuf/stubs/common.h... no
- configure: WARNING: Protobuf headers not found with default CXXFLAGS and
- CPPFLAGS, manually trying /usr/local/include
- configure: WARNING: Unsetting ac_cv_header_google_protobuf_stubs_common_h
- checking google/protobuf/stubs/common.h usability... no
- checking google/protobuf/stubs/common.h presence... no
- checking for google/protobuf/stubs/common.h... no
- configure: error: ERROR: ProtoBuf headers required; use '-Iincludedir' in
CXXFLAGS for unusual locations.
- ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RProtoBuf’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RProtoBuf’
- ERROR: dependency ‘RProtoBuf’ is not available for package ‘acumos’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/acumos’
- The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpdARWMZ/downloaded_packages’
- Warning messages:
- 1: In install.packages("acumos", , c("http://r.research.att.com", "http://rforge.net")) :
- installation of package ‘RProtoBuf’ had non-zero exit status
- 2: In install.packages("acumos", , c("http://r.research.att.com", "http://rforge.net")) :
- installation of package ‘acumos’ had non-zero exit status

Answer 1

RProtoBuf maintainer here: the requirements (on a Debian/Ubuntu system) are enumerated clearly in this Dockerfile we now use for the Travis CI tests of that package:
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
r-cran-rcpp \
r-cran-rcurl \
r-cran-runit \
r-cran-rmarkdown \
r-cran-knitr \
protobuf-compiler \
protobuf-c-compiler \
libprotobuf-c-dev \
libprotobuf-dev \
libprotoc-dev \
&& install.r pinp
This combines the R and ProtocolBuffer requirements, so if you "just" want to build the package you need at least
protobuf-compiler protobuf-c-compiler libprotobuf-c-dev libprotobuf-dev libprotoc-dev
and you may get away without the compilers if you never want to compile .proto files.

Answer 2

I believe R is looking for the Google protocol-buffer header files that are in package libprotoc-dev, install that like this on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev
I pointed you to the command-line package previously, sorry about that.
If all else fails, use the force and download the source from https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf