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Support for specifying C++98 in package installation has been removed.
Support in ‘R CMD config’ for ‘F77’, ‘FCPIFCPLAGS’, ‘CPP’, ‘CXXCPP’ and ‘CXX98’ and similar is deprecated. (‘CPP’ is found from the system ‘make’ and may well not be set.)