Error installing rstan on CentOs as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format #612
Description
Summary:
Error installing rstan from R in linux
Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
Error : unable to load R code in package 'rstan'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'rstan'
Description:
Based on previous issues posted here, I checked that the gcc version supports c++14
gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/u/sw/pkgs/toolchains/gcc-glibc/7/prefix/libexec/gcc/x86_64-mk-linux/7.1.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-mk-linux
Configured with: ../gcc-7.1.0/configure --build=x86_64-mk-linux --prefix=/u/sw/pkgs/toolchains/gcc-glibc/7/prefix --with-local-prefix=/u/sw/pkgs/toolchains/gcc-glibc/7/base --with-native-system-header-dir=/u/sw/pkgs/toolchains/gcc-glibc/7/prefix/include --with-pkgversion=mk --with-bugurl=https://bitbucket.org/mattiapenati/mk/issues --disable-nls --disable-multilib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-lto --enable-libgomp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.1.0 (mk)
Here is the content of ~/.R.Makevars
CXX14FLAGS=-O3 -march=native -mtune=native
CXX14FLAGS += -fPIC
Reproducible Steps:
In an R shell
install.packages("rstan", type = "source")
R Version:
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Operating System:
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"