[R] Error message

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's the info Michael Weylandt requested:
>
>> installed.packages()[c("lme4","nlme","Matrix"),c(2,3,12)]
>        LibPath                   Version       Built
> lme4   "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "0.999375-40" "2.13.1"
> nlme   "/usr/lib/R/library"      "3.1-104"     "2.15.0"
> Matrix "/usr/lib/R/library"      "1.0-6"       "2.15.0"
>
> Looks like I have lme4 for version 2.13 rather than 2.15.  Am
> I reading this right?  I didn't install this and I'm not a Linux
> person so someone will have to tell me the command to
> obtain the Linux information requested.  Then maybe I can
> figure whether to go to the Debian board or not.

Yes, it does look like lme4 is rather out of date and I hope that
should solve your problem: install.packages("lme4") should clear that
up.

However, it's not a terrible idea to just give your whole library a
good spring cleaning (if you have the time) with a solid

update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)
# Check all packages for having new versions on CRAN or having been
built under an older version of R
# ask = FALSE means you don't have to manually approve each update

Cheers,
Michael

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Error message
>
> On 28/08/2012 10:31 AM, Scott Raynaud wrote:
>> I suddenly started getting the error message below.
>> Not sure why.  If I type intalled.packages() it
>> shows Matrix and lme4 installed.  Can someone tell
>> what's going on and what I need to do to remedy the
>> problem?  I'm running on a Linux box.
>>            Loading required package: Matrix
>> Loading required package: lattice
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>    function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘lme4’
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘lme4’
>
>
> I would guess you are using incompatible versions.  Is R up to date?  are both Matrix and lme4 up to date?
>
> (If you posted sessionInfo() we'd know this...)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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