Trouble installing nloptr package on R 3.3.0 - r

Question

I can't install the package nloptr 1.0.4 on R 3.3.0. The messages are the following:
> install.packages("nloptr")
Installing package into ‘/Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/src/contrib/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 353942 bytes (345 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 345 KB
* installing *source* package ‘nloptr’ ...
** package ‘nloptr’ 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 whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
configure: Now testing for NLopt header file.
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/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 nlopt.h usability... yes
checking nlopt.h presence... yes
checking for nlopt.h... yes
configure: Suitable NLopt library found.
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
/usr/bin/clang++ -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include -fPIC -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -stdlib=libstdc++ -c dummy.cpp -o dummy.o
/usr/bin/clang -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include -fPIC -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -c nloptr.c -o nloptr.o
/usr/bin/clang++ -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -o nloptr.so dummy.o nloptr.o -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
installing to /Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
unable to load shared object '/Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so':
dlopen(/Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so, 6): Symbol not found: _nlopt_add_equality_mconstraint
Referenced from: /Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so
Expected in: flat namespace
in /Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr’
* restoring previous ‘/Users/fgomesbarros/Library/R/3.3/library/nloptr’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘nloptr’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/private/var/folders/rz/dp6vmb39165406h9qv69q60c0000gn/T/RtmpLvLOmn/downloaded_packages’`
My R version is 3.3.0 as you can see below:
> version
_
platform x86_64-apple-darwin12.6.0
arch x86_64
os darwin12.6.0
system x86_64, darwin12.6.0
status
major 3
minor 3.0
year 2016
month 05
day 03
svn rev 70573
language R
version.string R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
nickname Supposedly Educational
Any clues?
I also tried to install in olders versions (2.3.3 and 2.3.4) of R and had the same issue.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I was able to solve the problem on my Mac using
$ brew install nlopt
Looking into the issue I noticed that others had reportedly resolved the issue on Ubuntu using
$ sudo apt-get install libnlopt-dev
Apparently you now need to install it outside of R.

Answer 2

For me, running CentOS, the missing puzzle piece was this:
sudo yum install nlopt-devel

Answer 3

I tried to reinstall the package as a root and it worked! I don't know why.

Answer 4

If you run into this problem with nloptr 1.2.0 and R 3.5.1 on macOS High Sierra, brew install nlopt will fail because of inadequate permissions in /usr/local. The fix:
$ mkdir /usr/local/Frameworks
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Frameworks
$ brew install nlopt
In other words, you don't want to change permissions for the entire /usr/local directory. The installation fails when the Homebrew tries to create /usr/local/Framework. So, do it by hand as shown above. Then try again > install.packages("nloptr"). It worked for me.

Answer 5

I had to reinstall R, using the R-CRAN installer and uninstalling the macports package.
It finally worked!

Answer 6

In my case it was the issue of cmake as i am using ubuntu 22. i was installing matlib package of R and then in dependencies i faced this issue which is solved using
sudo apt-get install cmake