On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Administrator suggested I try to build with the GCC that is provided > with the nodes, which is gcc-4.4.7.
Redhat provides an alternative compiler (gcc 5.3 based) in one of it's opt-in repositories called "redhat developer toolkit" (RDT). In CentOS you install it as follows: yum install -y centos-release-scl yum install -y devtoolset-4-gcc-c++ This compiler is specifically designed to be used alongside the EL6 stock gcc 4.4.7. It includes a simple 'enable' script which will put RDT gcc and g++ in front of your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and so on. So what I do on CentOS is install R from EPEL (built with stock gcc 4.4.7) and whenever I need to install an R package that uses e.g. CXX11, simply start an R shell using the RDT compilers: source /opt/rh/devtoolset-4/enable R >From what I have been able to test, this works pretty well (though I am not a regular EL user). But I was able to build R packages that use C++11 (such as feather) and once installed, these packages can be used even in a regular R session (without RDT enabled). ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel