[R] trouble installing Rmpi on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 with openmpi

[tub78]

The problem here is that the compiler cannot find the include files
for mpi.  Notice that the first checks that fail are:

> checking mpi.h usability... no
> checking mpi.h presence... no
> checking for mpi.h... no

One solution is to create a file named "~/.R/Makevars" with the
following line:

PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I/opt/openmpi/include

... where /opt/openmpi/include/ contains the necessary mpi.h include
file.

Then, try to recompile.

Hope this helps,
- Stu



On May 6, 12:52 pm, "Mark Kimpel" <mwkim... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject pretty much says it all. I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04, i.e. Hardy
> Heron, have openmpi installed, and get the following error message with
> attempted install of Rmpi. sessionInfo() follows.
>
> Mark
>
> 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 mpi.h usability... no
> checking mpi.h presence... no
> checking for mpi.h... no
> Try to find libmpi.so or libmpich.a
> checking for main in -lmpi... yes
> checking for openpty in -lutil... yes
> checking for main in -lpthread... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/R-patched/R-build/lib64/R/include
> -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1
> -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1
> -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1
> -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1   -DUNKNOWN -fPIC -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2 -c
> conversion.c -o conversion.o
> In file included from conversion.c:18:
> Rmpi.h:1:17: error: mpi.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from conversion.c:18:
> Rmpi.h:14: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before
> 'mpitype'
> make: *** [conversion.o] Error 1
> chmod: cannot access `/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/site-library-2.7.0/Rmpi/libs/*':
> No such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Rmpi'
> ** Removing '/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/site-library-2.7.0/Rmpi'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>     /tmp/RtmppcK0FI/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
>
> > sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-04 r45620)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF- 8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_A DDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] graph_1.18.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.11.10 tcltk_2.7.0     tools_2.7.0
>
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