RcppArmadillo: failing to install on Ubuntu16.04 - r

Question

I am trying to install Rcpp on Ubuntu. Here are some environment details:
R version:3.4.0
g++ --version: Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4
If I have a blank Makevars file, RcppArmadillo can be installed but with some warnings about OpenMp
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RcppArmadillo.cpp -o RcppArmadillo.o
In file included from ../inst/include/armadillo:52:0,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadilloForward.h:46,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadillo.h:31,
from RcppArmadillo.cpp:22:
../inst/include/armadillo_bits/compiler_setup.hpp:487:118: note: #pragma message: WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags
#pragma message ("WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags")
^
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
In file included from ../inst/include/armadillo:52:0,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadilloForward.h:46,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadillo.h:31,
from RcppExports.cpp:4:
../inst/include/armadillo_bits/compiler_setup.hpp:487:118: note: #pragma message: WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags
#pragma message ("WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags")
^
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c fastLm.cpp -o fastLm.o
In file included from ../inst/include/armadillo:52:0,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadilloForward.h:46,
from ../inst/include/RcppArmadillo.h:31,
from fastLm.cpp:22:
../inst/include/armadillo_bits/compiler_setup.hpp:487:118: note: #pragma message: WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags
#pragma message ("WARNING: support for OpenMP requires C++11/C++14; add -std=c++11 or -std=c++14 to compiler flags")
^
g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o RcppExports.o fastLm.o -fopenmp -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/RcppArmadillo/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (RcppArmadillo)
After I added PKG_CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11 to Makevars, I got a error message as following:
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -std=c++11 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RcppArmadillo.cpp -o RcppArmadillo.o
RcppArmadillo.cpp:22:27: fatal error: RcppArmadillo.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: recipe for target 'RcppArmadillo.o' failed
make: *** [RcppArmadillo.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppArmadillo’
* removing ‘/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/RcppArmadillo’
* restoring previous ‘/home/march/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/RcppArmadillo’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘RcppArmadillo’ had non-zero exit status
The wield thing is that when I tried to re-install RcppArmadillo on my mac(10.11), the same problem occurred. Could anybody enlighten me?

Answer 1

This is 16.10 which I have here at hone, if you wish I can repeat it at work tomorrow with 16.04:
edd#bud:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10
Codename: yakkety
edd#bud:~$ Rscript -e 'install.packages("RcppArmadillo")'
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RcppArmadillo_0.7.960.1.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1115539 bytes (1.1 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.1 MB
* installing *source* package ‘RcppArmadillo’ ...
** package ‘RcppArmadillo’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
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 ccache g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... ccache g++ -E
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether ccache g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ version is sufficient... (6.2.0) yes
checking LAPACK_LIBS... system LAPACK found
checking for OpenMP... found
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating inst/include/RcppArmadilloLapack.h
** libs
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic -Werror -march=native -c RcppArmadillo.cpp -o RcppArmadillo.o
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic -Werror -march=native -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -I../inst/include -fopenmp -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic -Werror -march=native -c fastLm.cpp -o fastLm.o
ccache g++ -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o RcppExports.o fastLm.o -fopenmp -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppArmadillo/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (RcppArmadillo)
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/Rtmp2hQNrn/downloaded_packages’
edd#bud:~$
That I usee ccache is not material. This. Just. Works.