[R] Latest revision of lme4 requires 'Matrix' >= 0.995.2 but that version is not available on CRAN

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Søren Højsgaard <Soren.Hojsgaard at agrsci.dk> writes:
>
>> I just updated the packages on my pc (windows xp). When loading lme4 I get
>>
>> > library(lme4)
>> Error: package 'Matrix' 0.995-1 was found, but >= 0.995.2 is required by 'lme4'

[...]

>> 2) When actually trying to compile Matrix, I get
>>
>> lmer.o(.text+0x285f):lmer.c: undefined reference to `atanh'
>> make[3]: *** [Matrix.dll] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make: *** [pkg-Matrix] Error 2
>> *** Installation of Matrix failed ***
>> Removing 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
>> Restoring previous 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
>>
>> Can anyone help me on what to do???

Your toolset is out of date (well out of date, I suspect).  Please do 
ensure you have the versions listed in the R 2.2.1 R-admin manual.  I 
think this issue is an old mingw-runtime, but have not checked.

I can build Matrix 0.995.2 on Windows and have once checked it under 
R-devel.  However, it segfaults in its checks for me on almost all 
platforms, not always in the same test and not even in the same place on 
repeated runs.  I think the maintainers need to consider testing under 
valgrind.

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