(Actually I vaguely remember encountering the same problem in MRO 3.3, and solved it using similar method. Unfortunately I didn’t write it down.)
_Note: MRO means **Microsoft R Open** (previously _Revolution R) > **Recently I tried to set up the R development environment on a fresh Linux system, every thing went well until I hit this error installing xgboost:
**Package installation error: “C++11 standard requested but CXX11 is not defined”**After some Googling I found > this Github issue. It appears to be a MRO-specific problem, and > mjmg provided a working solution.> The gist is, replacing every “CXX1X” with “CXX11” in R compiler configuration files (System wide: ${R_HOME}/etc/Makeconf Per-user: ~/.R/Makevars) and fill in some values: