boost/regex.hpp not found - terminates install in R

[jmi5]

I cannot install_github this project as when I try to do so I get the following error:
In file included from internal_UaParser.cpp:1:0: internal_UaParser.h:5:27: fatal error: boost/regex.hpp: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

All the googling I can do about this problem has to do with compiling Boost for C++ projects...not sure what to make of those forums. And I have all the necessary dependencies.

[Ironholds]

You're absolutely sure you have Boost? This is distinct from having the BH package, since that's header-only libraries (and regex is not header-only)

[jmi5]

I do have Boost but it may not be in the right directory. Do I have to have it in the same directory I am installing uap-r to? Right now it is in Program Files (windows 7)

[Ironholds]

Oh god, Windows. That might do it. I can't speak for this package (haven't even tried it on Windows) but I've had a devil of a time getting boost to work with R packages on that platform :(

[jmi5]

Ah, gotcha...sorry to hear. If I get it working by shuffling files around or changing config files I will let you know

[Ironholds]

Please do!

[dmitriyshashkin]

It's possible to pass the path to boost through modifying the src/Makevars file, adding something like the following: PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I"C:\Boost\boost_1_59_0" Something similar should be done with yaml-cpp lib.

I overcame these two obstacles, yet haven't exhausted all the problems.

[Ironholds]

Hmn. What are the remaining problems? (and would that work uniformly given that boost's install location can, well, vary?)

[Ironholds]

FWIW I'm working on a version that removes the boost and YAML dependencies (at the cost of "some regexes won't work")

[psychelzh]

Here on Windows 10 have similar issue:

devtools::install_github("ua-parser/uap-r")
Downloading GitHub repo ua-parser/uap-r@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ua-parser/uap-r/zipball/master
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools compatible with R 3.4.4 was found. (Only the following incompatible version(s) of Rtools were found:3.5)

Please download and install Rtools 3.4 from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/.
Installing uaparser
"C:/PROGRA~1/Microsoft/R Open/R-3.4.4/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD  \
  INSTALL "C:/Users/liang/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpacAcXq/devtools22a42a365a75/ua-parser-uap-r-b90070e"  \
  --library="C:/Users/liang/Documents/R/win-library/3.4" --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'uaparser' ...

   **********************************************
   WARNING: this package has a configure script
         It probably needs manual configuration
   **********************************************


** libs
Warning: 运行命令'make -f "Makevars" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/Microsoft/R Open/R-3.4.4/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/Microsoft/R Open/R-3.4.4/share/make/winshlib.mk" CXX='$(CXX11) $(CXX11STD)' CXXFLAGS='$(CXX11FLAGS)' CXXPICFLAGS='$(CXX11PICFLAGS)' SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXX11LDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXX11LD)' SHLIB="uaparser.dll" WIN=64 TCLBIN=64 OBJECTS="RcppExports.o internal_UaParser.o internal_ua_parser.o ua_parse.o"'的状态是127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'uaparser'
* removing 'C:/Users/liang/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/uaparser'
In R CMD INSTALL
Installation failed: Command failed (1)

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 
#> [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
#> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                              
#> [5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] compiler_3.4.4  backports_1.1.2 magrittr_1.5    rprojroot_1.3-2
#>  [5] tools_3.4.4     htmltools_0.3.6 yaml_2.1.19     Rcpp_0.12.16   
#>  [9] stringi_1.1.7   rmarkdown_1.9   knitr_1.20      stringr_1.3.0  
#> [13] digest_0.6.15   evaluate_0.10.1

[evmy]

Oh god, Windows. That might do it. I can't speak for this package (haven't even tried it on Windows) but I've had a devil of a time getting boost to work with R packages on that platform :(

Have you managed to make it work on Win 10?

[dmitriyshashkin]

Oh god, Windows. That might do it. I can't speak for this package (haven't even tried it on Windows) but I've had a devil of a time getting boost to work with R packages on that platform :(

Have you managed to make it work on Win 10?

I managed to make it work back then, though it took me quite some time (two weeks or something) and in the process, I had to learn a bit more about how cpp programs are compiled. Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact set of hacks I used.

[evmy]

Oh god, Windows. That might do it. I can't speak for this package (haven't even tried it on Windows) but I've had a devil of a time getting boost to work with R packages on that platform :(

Have you managed to make it work on Win 10?

I managed to make it work back then, though it took me quite some time (two weeks or something) and in the process, I had to learn a bit more about how cpp programs are compiled. Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact set of hacks I used.

Thank you for the reply anyway. Will switching to a different OS help to resolve the issue?