[Rd] [EXTERNAL] Re: Hard crash of lme4 in R-devel

[Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.]

Thank you.  An update of lme4 fixed the issue.  No warning, no crash.

On 6/15/24 2:06 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> В Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:04:31 +0000
> "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel" <r-devel using r-project.org> пишет:
>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lme4_1.1-35.1  Matrix_1.7-0
> I see you have a new Matrix (1.7-0 from 2024-04-26 with a new ABI) but
> an older lme4 (1.1-35.1 from 2023-11-05).
>
> I reproduced the crash and the giant backtrace by first installing
> latest lme4 and then updating Matrix. With the latest version of lme4,
> this results in a warning:
>
> library(lme4)
> # Loading required package: Matrix
> # Warning message:
> # In check_dep_version() : ABI version mismatch:
> # lme4 was built with Matrix ABI version 1
> # Current Matrix ABI version is 2
> # Please re-install lme4 from source or restore original 'Matrix'
> # package
>
> The version of lme4 that you have installed doesn't have this check
> because it only appeared in March 2024:
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flme4%2Flme4%2Fcommit%2F8be641b7a1fd5b6e6ac962552add13e29bb5ff5b&data=05%7C02%7Ctherneau%40mayo.edu%7C2a013c76b6014f6962c108dc8d09bfe2%7Ca25fff9c3f634fb29a8ad9bdd0321f9a%7C0%7C0%7C638540320365706612%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3OfJDIvrciY0w0uI0W0KT%2BfPfgezqsmOHPD1R2Gynyo%3D&reserved=0
>
> The crash should go away if you update or at least reinstall lme4 from
> source.
>