"fatal error: Eigen/Core: No such file or directory" when installing rpf package in rstudio

Question

I need the rpf package as a dependency of the MBESS package. During the installation process rstudio does the following:

    Installing package into ‘/home/gata/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
    (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
    versuche URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rpf_0.59.tar.gz'
    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 347458 bytes (339 KB)
    ==================================================
    downloaded 339 KB

    * installing *source* package ‘rpf’ ...
    ** Paket ‘rpf’ erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
    ** libs
    g++  -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/home/gata/R/x86_64-pc-linux-        gnu-library/3.4/RcppEigen/include"   -fopenmp    -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c ba81quad.cpp -o ba81quad.o
    In file included from ba81quad.cpp:18:0:
    rpf.h:25:10: fatal error: Eigen/Core: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
    #include "Eigen/Core"
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: recipe for target 'ba81quad.o' failed
    make: *** [ba81quad.o] Error 1
    ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rpf’
    * removing ‘/home/gata/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rpf’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘rpf’ had non-zero exit status

    The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpPz090Z/downloaded_packages’

I researched the Eigen library, but I have no idea how I could fix this in the installation process.

Is there a suggestion how to solve this issue?

Information about my OS and R version:

R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Welcome to Stack Overflow! Which command did you use? install.packages("MBESS")? install.packages("rpf")? Something else (e.g. devtools::install_cran())? Were there any options you passed to any of these (e.g. dependencies = "Depends")? — duckmayr
Hey duckmayr. Thank you very much for commenting! I solved it by installing RcppEigen packages. Anyway, maybe if somebody else will have the question again: I tried installing in RStudio GUI, RTerminal (install.packages() for each of the dependencies) and in the terminal via sudo install <tar.gz file>. — mailach

mailach mailach · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-30T13:57:15

Just solved it by simply installing RcppEigen package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppEigen/index.html). Still no clue why this wasn't supposed as a dependency.

"fatal error: Eigen/Core: No such file or directory" when installing rpf package in rstudio

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