issue with cxxfunction of package inline

Question

I was trying to run the colMaxRCpp function provided by Dirk Eddelbuettel in this post. I'm just repeating the function here so that folks reading this post don't have to click on the link.

library(inline)
colMaxRcpp <- cxxfunction(signature(X_="numeric"), plugin="Rcpp", body='
   Rcpp::NumericMatrix X(X_);
   int n = X.ncol();
   Rcpp::NumericVector V(n);
   for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
      Rcpp::NumericVector W = X.column(i);
      V[i] = *std::max_element(W.begin(), W.end());  // from the STL
   }
   return(V);
 ')

When I tried to run it, I got the following error:

cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
file148253859d1.cpp:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
make: *** [file148253859d1.o] Error 1

ERROR(s) during compilation: source code errors or compiler configuration errors!

Program source:
  1: 
  2: // includes from the plugin
  3: 
  4: #include <Rcpp.h>
  5: 
  6: 
  7: #ifndef BEGIN_RCPP
  8: #define BEGIN_RCPP
  9: #endif
 10: 
 11: #ifndef END_RCPP
 12: #define END_RCPP
 13: #endif
 14: 
 15: using namespace Rcpp;
 16: 
 17: 
 18: // user includes
 19: 
 20: 
 21: // declarations
 22: extern "C" {
 23: SEXP file148253859d1( SEXP X_) ;
 24: }
 25: 
 26: // definition
 27: 
 28: SEXP file148253859d1( SEXP X_ ){
 29: BEGIN_RCPP
 30: 
 31:   Rcpp::NumericMatrix X(X_);
 32:   int n = X.ncol();
 33:   Rcpp::NumericVector V(n);
 34:   for (int i=0;i<n; i++) {
 35:     Rcpp::NumericVector W=X.column(i);
 36:     V[i] = *std::max_element(W.begin(),W.end());
 37:   }
 38:   return(V);
 39: 
 40: END_RCPP
 41: }
 42: 
 43: 
Error in compileCode(f, code, language = language, verbose = verbose) : 
  Compilation ERROR, function(s)/method(s) not created! cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
file148253859d1.cpp:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
make: *** [file148253859d1.o] Error 1
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/bin/x64/R CMD SHLIB file148253859d1.cpp 2>
file148253859d1.cpp.err.txt' had status 1 

I can't understand the error message above. What can I do to fix this error? Thanks.

EDIT: This is the error if I try evalCpp("2+2")

g++ -m64 -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/include" -DNDEBUG     -I"C:/Users/Pradipto/Documents/R/win-    library/3.0/Rcpp/include" -I"C:/Users/Pradipto/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/Rcpp/include"         
-I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/include"     -O2 -Wall  -mtune=core2 -c     
file1bb87b48650d.cpp -o file1bb87b48650d.o file1bb87b48650d.cpp:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: 64-    bit mode not compiled in make: *** [file1bb87b48650d.o] Error 1 
Error in sourceCpp(code = code, env = env, rebuild = rebuild, showOutput = showOutput,  : 
  Error 1 occurred building shared library.

Answer 1

It's not an issue with the code. Using Rcpp-as-released:

R> source("/tmp/uday.R")     ## with your example in this file
R> colMaxRcpp(matrix(1:9,3))
[1] 3 6 9
R>

Try something simpler such as

R> evalCpp("2 + 2")          ## eval expression via C++ program
[1] 4
R> evalCpp("M_PI")           ## pi as constant in math.h
[1] 3.14159
R> 

to see that your compiler is fine.