Trouble installing nloptr package on R 3.3.0

For me, running CentOS, the missing puzzle piece was this:

     sudo yum install nlopt-devel

I was able to solve the problem on my Mac using

$ brew install nlopt

Looking into the issue I noticed that others had reportedly resolved the issue on Ubuntu using

$ sudo apt-get install libnlopt-dev

Apparently you now need to install it outside of R.