Ivan,
Thanks for following-up but I think this issue is local to the OP as R is already setup exactly that way to skip `assert()` in builds (in perfect congruence with the CRAN Repository Policy) edd@rob:~$ grep NDEBUG /etc/R/Makeconf R_XTRA_CPPFLAGS = -I"$(R_INCLUDE_DIR)" -DNDEBUG ALL_CPPFLAGS = -I"$(R_INCLUDE_DIR)" -DNDEBUG $(PKG_CPPFLAGS) $(CLINK_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) edd@rob:~$ Armadillo (upstream) is very widely used, RcppArmadillo is now used by over 1000 packages and had (by partial counts from the subset of CRAN mirrors offering logs) over 25 million downloads. I would be rather surprised if there were a systemic issue we have not seen. So per Occam's Razor, I would look under a different street light. Best, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel