Failing to install rstan on Windows 7

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Dear all,

I am very sorry, but browsing through the various categories in this forum for nearly 30 min now, I still could not identify relevant information concerning my practical problem of installing rstan (version: 2018-01-19) on Windows 7 – even though I would assume that my problem is not particularly unique.

I have been carefully following the instructions at https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/Installing-RStan-on-Windows. I repeated executing them a total of 3 times.

Concerning my query here, I am now prompted to provide the following information to this forum:

(1) Output of writeLines(readLines(file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), ".R/Makevars")))

I thus obtain:
CXXFLAGS=-O3 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function

CXXFLAGS += -flto -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations

CXXFLAGS=-O3 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function

CXXFLAGS += -flto -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations

CXXFLAGS=-O3 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function

CXXFLAGS += -flto -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations

(2) Output of devtools::session_info("rstan")

Here I receive the response:
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘devtools’

I’d appreciate some helpful comments from experts.

Many thanks!

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What is the error message when the installation fails?

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Everything in the installation process looks fine to my layperson’s eye almost to the end, until I am running the final check, which yields

fx ← inline::cxxfunction( signature(x = “integer”, y = “numeric” ) , ’

  • return ScalarReal( INTEGER(x)[0] * REAL(y)[0] ) ;

Error in compileCode(f, code, language = language, verbose = verbose) :
Compilation ERROR, function(s)/method(s) not created! C:\Rtools\mingw_64\bin\nm.exe: file2284423465c8.o: plugin needed to handle lto object
Cannot export __gnu_lto_slim: symbol not defined
Cannot export __gnu_lto_v1: symbol not defined
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

fx( 2L, 5 )

Error in fx(2L, 5) : could not find function “fx”

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Dear Ben,

many thanks again for your immediate reply concerning my installation problem. In the end, I didn’t touch the matter until just today. I started again with a re-installation from scratch, carefully reading all of the instruction provided on GitHub. After about three quarters of an hour, it worked first time around. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what I did differently on this occasion. I would claim that I did everything the same as before. Nevermind.

Cheers, Henk

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@hve1964 I’m glad it’s working but sorry it’s a hassle!

We’re working on making installation easier for Windows users, but at the moment it can still be a pain. From what I understand, some R and RStudio updates later this year will also help to ensure that the toolchain is setup in the way rstan needs it.

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