`rstan` installation error RStudio cloud

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Hi,

I’ve installed rstan via install.packages('rstan', repos='https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2020-02-10') since this seems to be the only feasible way to do so in my RStudio cloud. When I try running the below example…

example(stan_model, package = "rstan", run.dontrun = TRUE)

…I get the following error message.

Error in compileCode(f, code, language = language, verbose = verbose) : 
  Compilation ERROR, function(s)/method(s) not created! In file included from /usr/local/lib64/R/site-library/RcppEigen/include/Eigen/Core:397,
                 from /usr/local/lib64/R/site-library/RcppEigen/include/Eigen/Dense:1,
                 from /home/aa0212/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.0/StanHeaders/include/stan/math/prim/mat/fun/Eigen.hpp:13,
                 from <command-line>:
/usr/local/lib64/R/site-library/RcppEigen/include/Eigen/src/Core/arch/SSE/PacketMath.h:60:39: warning: ignoring attributes on template argument ‘__m128’ {aka ‘__vector(4) float’} [-Wignored-attributes]
 template<> struct is_arithmetic<__m128>  { enum { value = true }; };
                                       ^
/usr/local/lib64/R/site-library/RcppEigen/include/Eigen/src/Core/arch/SSE/PacketMath.h:61:40: warning: ignoring attributes on template argument ‘__m128i’ {aka ‘__vector(2) long long int’} [-Wignored-attributes]
 template<> struct is_arithmetic<__m128i> { enum { va

Now, I understand from this post that it may be due to the StanHeaders being installed to a folder on the computer that the cloud-version RStudio can’t locate. But I’m not sure what to do about it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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The error isn’t actually contained in that snippet, we would need to see more of the output. Have you also tried installing from source?

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Hi @andrjohns, thanks for checking. I’m afraid that’s the entire error message right there. I can’t install from source, i.e. I can’t go into CRAN the way things are set up, alas. What I was able to do is to use a custom-built function to force installation using with_proxy. Seems to be working now. Thanks again though.