[R] Installing ranger package in Ubuntu 14

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On May 22, 2017 2:35:33 PM PDT, "Iván Blanco" <alcmeonida at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to install ranger package (any version) in Ubuntu 14 from a
>tar.gz file already downloaded, but unsuccessfully. System admin has
>already installed gcc 5.4 and g++ 5.4 and I've created a ~/.R/Makevars
>file pointing to these compilers instead of gcc 4.8 that comes in
>Ubuntu 14 by default.  Ranger requires gcc 4.9 or higher. That Makevars
>file looks like this:
>
>CC=/storage/home/user/bin/gcc-5
>CCXX=/storage/home/user/bin/g++-5
>FC=/storage/home/user/bin/gfortran-6
>F77=/storage/home/user/bin/gfortran-6
>
>I don’t have admin rights and system admin can't change gcc path for
>the whole server. Output error is this one:
>
>=========================================
>* installing *source* package ârangerâ ...
>** package ârangerâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>** libs
>g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DR_BUILD
>-I"/storage/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include"  
>-fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
>-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c AAA_check_cpp11.cpp -o
>AAA_check_cpp11.o
>g++: error: unrecognized command line option â-fstack-protector-strongâ
>g++: error: unrecognized command line option â-Wdate-timeâ
>/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: recipe for target 'AAA_check_cpp11.o'
>failed
>make: *** [AAA_check_cpp11.o] Error 1
>ERROR: compilation failed for package ârangerâ
>* removing
>â/storage/home/u382324/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rangerâ
>
>The downloaded source packages are in
>        â/tmp/RtmpXUQwl6/downloaded_packagesâ
>Warning message:
>In install.packages("ranger") :
>  installation of package ârangerâ had non-zero exit status
>==============================================
>
>It seems I’m missing some flag defintion in my Makevars and R is using
>the default gcc 4.8 compiler, I don’t know. Any advice about how to
>procceed would be very helpful. Thanks.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Ivan
>
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