[R] [R-pkgs] New versions of Matrix and lme4 packages for R-2.4.0

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 03-Oct-2006 at 09:56AM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:

|> Versions 0.9975-1 of the Matrix and lme4 packages will soon be available on
|> CRAN for use with R version 2.4.0 or later.

How quickly things change!!  When I got to look at CRAN, the latest
versions were 0.9975-1 of lme4 and 0.9975-2 of Matrix which I tried.  



platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch           x86_64
os             linux-gnu
system         x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          10
day            03
svn rev        39566
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)


Matrix installs, but with a number of warnings like these:

Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
         in the method signature for function "coerce" no definition for class: "matrix.csr"
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
         in the method signature for function "coerce" no definition for class: "matrix.csr"


When I try to install lme4, it fails with messages like these:

*Installing *source* package 'lme4' ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/local/R-2.4.0/include -I/usr/local/R-2.4.0/include  -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -c init.c -o init.o
In file included from init.c:1:
lme4_utils.h:4:20: error: Matrix.h: No such file or directory
In file included from init.c:1:
lme4_utils.h:14: error: syntax error before ��c��

My guess is that the warnings from the Matrix installation were not
irrelevant, and that the type of error would indicate to the
cognoscenti[1] what could be missing in my installation.  If the
second part of my guess is not correct, I'll gladly supply more of the
messages if the above is insufficient.  Of course, I'm open to
correction on the first part also.

TIA




1. cognoscenti:- persons who have superior knowledge and understanding
of a particular field, (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cognoscenti)


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