How do I tell the C++ compiler on a supercomputer that my R package requires C++0x?

Question

I have written and built an R package that depends on Rcpp and requires the C++0x standard (for using the tgamma function in C++). I have tested the package on various desktop computers and operating systems, and it always seems to install and work fine. However, I would also like to use the package on an HPC server. When I try to install the package there in my local R library tree using R CMD INSTALL test (where test is the name of the package), I get the following error message from the compiler:

/usr/include/c++/4.4.7/c++0x_warning.h(31): catastrophic error: #error directive: This file requires compiler and library support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x. This support is currently experimental, and must be enabled with the -std=c++0x or -std=gnu++0x compiler options. #error This file requires compiler and library support for the upcoming \ ^

compilation aborted for Metropolis_Sampler_Beta_Edgewise_Cpp_Statistics.cpp (code 4) make: *** [Metropolis_Sampler_Beta_Edgewise_Cpp_Statistics.o] Error 4 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘test’

It basically tells me that I should enable C++0x support when the compiler is called (as in this post). Yet, I thought adding the statement CXX_STD = CXX11 to the src/Makevars file in the R package would actually tell the compiler that this version needs to be used. And indeed that seems to be the case on various desktop computers I have tried. So my question is: how can I tell the compiler on the server that this C++ version should be used for compilation? Alternatively, how else can I install the package?

On the server, I load the module for R by entering module load math/R on the terminal before trying to install the package, and it reports back that the following modules were loaded:

Loading module dependency 'compiler/intel/13.1'.

Loading module dependency 'numlib/mkl/11.0.5'.

Edit 1: The server is a German university cluster called bwUniCluster. It is based on KITE 2.0/RHEL6.5/Lustre 2.5.2. As far as I can tell from the module message reported above, it seems to be the Intel C++ Compiler XE (ICPC) version 13.1.3. But actually I have no clue about compilers, so if you need to know anything more specific, please let me know.

Edit 2 It's also possible to execute module load compiler/gnu/4.9 on the terminal before I try to install the package. This results in the following error message (similar as the one above), which leads me to think that this is not a version problem:

/pfs/data1/software_uc1/bwhpc/common/compiler/gnu/4.9.2/bin/../include/c++/4.9.2/bits/c++0x_warning.h(32): catastrophic error: #error directive: This file requires compiler and library support for the ISO C++ 2011 standard. This support is currently experimental, and must be enabled with the -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 compiler options. #error This file requires compiler and library support for the \ ^

compilation aborted for Metropolis_Sampler_Beta_Edgewise_Cpp_Statistics.cpp (code 4) make: *** [Metropolis_Sampler_Beta_Edgewise_Cpp_Statistics.o] Error 4 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘test’

Edit 3: One of the comments suggests that both the R package and R itself need to be compiled using the same compiler version. Is this correct? R was built using g++ 4.4.7 on this machine. Does this mean that the only feasible solution is to convince the sys admin to recompile R with the other 4.9.2 compiler and provide it as a new module? I find this hard to believe, given the following sentence in the "Writing R Extensions" manual:

On these platforms, it is necessary to select a different compiler for C++11, via personal or site Makevars files.

Answer 1

The solution was indeed to recompile R on the server with a newer compiler, in this case Intel 14 (as discussed in Edit 3 in the original post). The sys admin was so kind to set up a new module for this R version.