[R] Unable to install lme4

[jamesmcc]

This is the first time I've encountered R having difficulty with package and
R version compatibility. I cant believe no one has fixed generally so that
your version of R can get the latest package appropriate to that version.
How nice would that be? :)

Anyway, I figured it out for my version (2.8.1). I needed to install Matrix
package first, which was also outdated.

> R CMD INSTALL -l lib Matrix_0.999375-22.tar.gz
> R CMD INSTALL -l lib lme4_0.999375-28.tar.gz

it loads now within R. I haven used it much yet.



jamesmcc wrote:
> 
> I am baffled by this as well. I'm having the same issue. Using suse linux,
> with 64 bit R2.8.1.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> james
> 
> 
> 
> Zege, Andrew wrote:
>> 
>> I am unable to install package lme4, after several attempts to do so
>> using various repository URLs.
>> Just to make sure everything works fine with proxy, connection, etc, I
>> installed ggplot2 and it worked fine.
>> 
>> I am using command
>> 
>> install.packages("lme4", lib="/myRlibs"),
>> 
>> optionally using contrib argument with different URLs.
>> 
>> Error message the I get is
>> 
>> Warning message;
>> In install.packages("lme4", lib="/myRlibs")
>>  package 'lme4' is not available
>> 
>> 
>> Some other details, not sure how relevant are:
>> 
>> getOption("repos") returns "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN"
>> 
>> I tried setting contrib to various other URL, such as 
>> "http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib" or Berkeley URL, but with no success.
>> Actually, when I did available.packages() on this repos, I didn't see
>> lme4 in the package indices.
>> My machine has x86_64bit RedHat Linux.
>> 
>> Would appreciate any tips or directions,
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Andre
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 

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