installation error for rstan 2.18.2 on centos cluster

Summary:

Installation fails with compilation error in rstan.

Description:

Please see Current Output below, and please let me know if you need more info, thanks.

Reproducible Steps:

$ cat ~/.R/Makevars
CXX14FLAGS = -O3 -march=native -mtune=native -fPIC -DBOOST_PHOENIX_NO_VARIADIC_EXPRESSION\
 -I $(MKLROOT)/include -DEIGEN_USE_MKL_ALL
LDLIBS += -L$(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64 -lmkl_intel_lp64
LDLIBS += -lmkl_core -lmkl_sequential -lpthread -lm
CXX14 = icc -std=c++1y

$ module list
Currently Loaded Modulefiles:
  1) slurm/14.03.0                      5) zlib/1.2.8                         9) R/3.4.1-intel
  2) idev                               6) bzip2/1.0.6                       10) gcc/4.9.4
  3) bbcp/amd64_rhel60                  7) xz/5.2.2
  4) intel-psxe/2015-update1(default)   8) pcre/8.39

$ time Rscript -e 'install.packages("rstan", repos="https://cloud.r-project.org/", dependencies = TRUE)' 2>&1 | tee rstan-install-log

Current Output:

<snip>
* DONE (rstudioapi)
* installing *source* package ‘rstan’ ...
** package ‘rstan’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
icc -std=c++1y  -I/share/apps/R/3.4.1-intel/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"../inst/include" -I"`"/share/apps/R/3.4.1-intel/lib64/R/bin/Rscript" --vanilla -e "cat(system.file('include', 'src', package = 'StanHeaders'))"`" -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -DBOOST_PHOENIX_NO_VARIADIC_EXPRESSION -I"/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I"/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/RcppEigen/include" -I"/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include" -I"/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/StanHeaders/include" -I/usr/local/include     -O3 -march=native -mtune=native -fPIC -DBOOST_PHOENIX_NO_VARIADIC_EXPRESSION -I /share/apps/intel_parallel_studio_xe/2015_update1/composer_xe_2015.1.133/mkl/include -DEIGEN_USE_MKL_ALL -c chains.cpp -o chains.o
In file included from /lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/utility.hpp(22),
                 from /lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/range/size.hpp(25),
                 from /lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/range/functions.hpp(20),
                 from /lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/range/iterator_range_core.hpp(38),
                 from /lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp(30),
                 from chains.cpp(28):
/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/core/noncopyable.hpp(42): error: defaulted default constructor cannot be constexpr because the corresponding implicitly declared default constructor would not be constexpr
        BOOST_CONSTEXPR noncopyable() = default;
                        ^

/lustre/project/<user>/R/Library/3.4/BH/include/boost/pending/integer_log2.hpp(7): note: This header is deprecated. Use <boost/integer/integer_log2.hpp> instead.
compilation aborted for chains.cpp (code 2)
make: *** [chains.o] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rstan’
<snip>

Expected Output:

No error.

RStan Version:

2.18.2

R Version:

(3.4.1 compiled with Intel MKL)

$ Rscript -e "R.version"
               _
platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch           x86_64
os             linux-gnu
system         x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major          3
minor          4.1
year           2017
month          06
day            30
svn rev        72865
language       R
version.string R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
nickname       Single Candle

Operating System:

$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

Best,
CB

Start with the ~/.R/Makevars settings, loaded module list, and the Rscript installation command, then inspect the reported Boost compiler error for rstan 2.18.2 on CentOS 6.5. Done means the package installs without the compilation failure in the shown environment.