As one of the Rcpp authors, I can assure that the error is probably at your end and with either gcc (unlikely) or CDH. Rcpp gets built and rebuild a bazillion times both on CRAN (and yes there are pages summarizing the builds on CRAN and also on Debian . The package does not normally kill the compiler.
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