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

[John Logsdon]

I've just hit this problem as well and as I am slumming it on XP at the
moment, I don't have the compilation tools to use the .tar.gz version.

I also notice that the numbering format has changed.  Is this intentional?

Best wishes

John

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Søren Højsgaard wrote:

> 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'
> 
> 'Matrix'  0.995-1 is indeed installed on my computer, but update.packages() does not capture a never version; and seemingly for good reasons: When looking at CRAN, the new version of Matrix is available - but only as a .tar.gz archive. Two questions
>  
> 1) How can a new version of lme4 make its way to CRAN when the packages it depends on are not available (that is, in a zip-version)?
>  
> An answer could be: Buhh, you can just download the .tar.gz archive and then compile it yourself! Surely, that would be possible, but it can not be the intention...
>  
> 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???
> Thanks / Søren
> 
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