[R] lme4 and function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix' / Ubuntu

[Esmail]

Hello all,

Using Ubuntu 9.04 and R 2.8.1.

For a project I need to use the Zelig package, which in turn wants to
use the lme4 package. When trying to use Zelig and it tries to its required
packages I get the following error message.

Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'
Error in loadModelDeps(model) :
   This model depends on package "lme4". Please install this package and try again

However, library() lists this package:

Packages in library '/usr/lib/R/site-library':

coda                    Output analysis and diagnostics for MCMC
lme4                    Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes
Matrix                  Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods
MCMCpack                Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Package
mvtnorm                 Multivariate Normal and t Distributions
sandwich                Robust Covariance Matrix Estimators
VGAM                    Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models
Zelig                   Everyone's Statistical Software
zoo  ...

Trying to load lme4 directly with library(lme4) yields:


Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'


I have looked on the web for quite a bit, but not found a solution,
what am I missing?

lme4 wants matrix version >= 0.999375-11, I have Matrix_0.999375-17,
and R >= 2.7 (I have 2.8.1). I notice that in the functions listings
for Matrix cholmod_start is not found.

(also for some odd reason, my system installs version Zelig 3.3-1 instead of 
3.4-5, don't think this is a factor though)


Here are some specifics about my setup, I tried to be complete but I
am happy to provide more information if it would help.

Thanks!

Esmail


Ubuntu 9.04
Linux t61 2.6.28-17-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 1 18:57:07 UTC 2009 i686 
GNU/Linux


 > library(lme4)
Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice

Attaching package: 'Matrix'


	The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :

	 xtabs


	The following object(s) are masked from package:base :

	 colMeans,
	 colSums,
	 rcond,
	 rowMeans,
	 rowSums

Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'


 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] Matrix_0.999375-17 lattice_0.17-26

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.8.1
 >

                 Information on package 'lme4'

Description:

Package:       lme4
Version:       0.999375-28
Date:          2008-12-13
Title:         Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes
Author:        Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>, Martin Maechler
                <maechler at R-project.org> and Bin Dai <dai at stat.wisc.edu>
Maintainer:    Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
Description:   Fit linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models.
Depends:       methods, R(>= 2.7.0), Matrix(>= 0.999375-11), lattice
LinkingTo:     Matrix, stats
Imports:       graphics, stats
Suggests:      mlmRev, MEMSS
LazyLoad:      yes
LazyData:      yes
License:       GPL (>=2)
URL:           http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/
Packaged:      Sat Dec 13 20:07:38 2008; maechler
Built:         R 2.8.0; i486-pc-linux-gnu; 2008-12-15 13:16:45; unix




                 Information on package 'Matrix'

Description:

Package:              Matrix
Version:              0.999375-17
Date:                 2008-12-10
Title:                Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods
Author:               Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> and Martin
                       Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Maintainer:           Doug and Martin <Matrix-authors at R-project.org>
Description:          Classes and methods for dense and sparse matrices
                       and operations on them using Lapack and
                       SuiteSparse.
Depends:              R (>= 2.6.0), stats, methods, utils, lattice
Imports:              graphics, lattice, grid, stats
Enhances:             graph, SparseM
SystemRequirements:   GNU make
LazyLoad:             yes
LazyData:             no
LazyDataNote:         no longer available, since we use data/*.R *and*
                       our classes
....
all.equal-methods       Matrix Methods for Function all.equal()
atomicVector-class      Virtual Class "atomicVector" of Atomic Vectors
band                    Extract bands of a matrix
bdiag                   Construct a Block Diagonal Matrix
cBind                   Versions of 'cbind' and 'rbind' recursively
                         built on cbind2/rbind2
chol                    Choleski Decomposition - 'Matrix' S4 Generic
colSums                 Form Row and Column Sums and Means
compMatrix-class        Class "compMatrix" of Composite (Factorizable)
                         Matrices
....