Hi Dirk, When trying to install your Rcpp R package from CRAN on Cygwin, compilation aborts with the following error: Timer.cpp:35:6: error: #error "Rcpp::Timer not supported by your OS."
A simple Google search brought up this bug on the Debian bug tracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697032 The full log from the R console is below: ################################# > install.packages("Rcpp") Installing package into ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/contrib/Rcpp_0.10.4.tar.gz' Content type 'application/gz' length 2397813 bytes (2.3 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 2.3 Mb Bioconductor version 2.12 (BiocInstaller 1.10.3), ?biocLite for help Welcome to R! * installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ... ** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/build=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/src/R-3.0.1=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -c Date.cpp -o Date.o g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/build=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/src/R-3.0.1=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -c Module.cpp -o Module.o gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -std=gnu99 -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/build=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/src/R-3.0.1=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -c Rcpp_init.c -o Rcpp_init.o g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/build=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/R/R-3.0.1-1/src/R-3.0.1=/usr/src/debug/R-3.0.1-1 -c Timer.cpp -o Timer.o Timer.cpp:35:6: error: #error "Rcpp::Timer not supported by your OS." Timer.cpp:94:6: error: #error "Rcpp::Benchmark::Timer not supported by your OS." /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:132: recipe for target `Timer.o' failed make: *** [Timer.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’ * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp’ The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpHnCW28/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("Rcpp") : installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: i686-pc-cygwin (32-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] BiocInstaller_1.10.3 ################################# Is there anything I can do to get it to work? Thank you. Best, -- Enrico Ferrero PhD Student Steve Russell Lab - Department of Genetics FlyChip - Cambridge Systems Biology Centre University of Cambridge e.ferr...@gen.cam.ac.uk http://flypress.gen.cam.ac.uk/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple