Hello everyone -

I am building an R package that makes use of the igraph C++ library to
speed up some network operations that I have written in C++. I would like
to build the package so that I do not have to include the entire igraph
code base in the src folder.

I understand that using the LinkingTo: field in the DESCRIPTION file (
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html) allows users
to call header files included in other packages. For instance, this is the
case for any package relying on Rcpp. What I would like to do is to list
the igraph R package in LinkingTo:, as the igraph R package contains the
full igraph C++ library in its src folder.

However, when I have tried doing this with igraph, the igraph.h header
isn't found when running R CMD INSTALL. For instance, when I include the
igraph.h header in the rcpparma_hello_world.cpp script and run R CMD
INSTALL, I get the following error:

clang++ -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG
 -I/usr/local/include
-I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include"
-I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RcppArmadillo/include"
-I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/igraph/include"
  -fPIC  -O3 -pedantic -c rcpparma_hello_world.cpp -o rcpparma_hello_world.o
rcpparma_hello_world.cpp:4:10: fatal error: 'igraph.h' file not found
#include "igraph.h"
         ^
1 error generated.

My understanding is that this a consequence of igraph not including its
header files in an inst/include folder, as these are all copied to a common
location upon package installation, which the compiler can then search for
when it detects igraph in LinkingTo.

Does anyone have advice on how to access these header files without
including the entire igraph code base in src, either with or without use of
the LinkingTo: field? Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Best regards,
Ben
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