Installing Rcpp in rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang - r

Question

I'm trying to replicate CRAN sanitizer failures for my R package that depends on Rcpp on the rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang docker image.
When I try to install Rcpp I get an error about no type named 'R_ContinueUnwind'. Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is it an incompatibility with Rcpp and Rdevel?
If the latter, is there a way to get a similar docker image that uses address sanitizers for a non-development version of R?
Here's the command I've been trying to run and output:
docker run --cap-add SYS_PTRACE --rm -it rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang /bin/bash
root#e9f11aceb087:/# Rscriptdevel -e "install.packages('Rcpp')"
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Rcpp_0.12.18.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3809164 bytes (3.6 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 3.6 MB
* installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ...
** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
clang++-4.0 -stdlib=libc++ -fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-sanitize=float-divide-by-zero -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -mtune=native -c Date.cpp -o Date.o
In file included from Date.cpp:31:
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27:
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:128:
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:150:7: error: no type named 'R_ContinueUnwind' in the global namespace
::R_ContinueUnwind(token);
~~^
1 error generated.
/usr/local/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:166: recipe for target 'Date.o' failed
make: *** [Date.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpqVuvlD/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("Rcpp") :
installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status
Edit
Here's the result of docker image list and from within the container Rdevel --version
docker image list rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang latest c769161f77fb 10 months ago 4.47GB
And Rdevel --version
Rdevel --version
R Under development (unstable) (2017-09-16 r73288) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
For more information about these matters see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
I got that image by using docker pull, I'm now trying to build it from scratch, following the lead that the image is 10 months old.

Answer 1

Maintainer of that repo here. We could probably discuss that over at the repo in an issue ticket too. I have not tried compiling R-devel with clang myself in some time (as I build r-devel at home via gcc), so not sure why the symbol is missing.
The whole concept was picked up by Winston who created a whole battery of debug Docker containers in this repo.
Otherwise, the (excellent) R hub builder also has sanitizer builds. One remaining problem is that CRAN is not too forthcoming with changes to their setup (besides publishing their short descriptions) so it is never clear if the setup is in fact identical to theirs.
Edit: Actually grep'ing for your symbol shows that it is contingent on R version 3.5.0 or later:
#if (defined(R_VERSION) && R_VERSION >= R_Version(3, 5, 0))
::R_ContinueUnwind(token);
#endif
Can you double check your container setup if that is given? We may have a mismatch here then between R version and R-devel version -- should be easy to fix.