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

[Esmail]

On 10-Jan-10 12:12, Dieter Menne wrote:
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> Esmail Bonakdarian-4 wrote:
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>> Using Ubuntu 9.04 and R 2.8.1.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> Looks like a version mismatch. It's probably easiest if you update to R
> 2.10.1 and try again; you will have to reinstall all your packages, because
> of the change help format in 2.9.x
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> Dieter

Ok, I'll give this a try (probably not a bad idea to be more up-to-date.
Hopefully that will make the problem go away.

Thanks,
Esmail