[R] lme4 package installation

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.08.2015 22:52, Teck Kiang Tan wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have problem in installation lme4 and have tried over the past 2 days. It
> failed to install from the various countries.
>
>> install.packages("lme4")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://cran.stat.nus.edu.sg/src/contrib


This mirror does not respond whn I just tried, choose another one.


> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib

This one works for me (but does not contain lme4).
Perhaps also run setInternet2() before you try again in cae you need 
proxy settings.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://cran.stat.nus.edu.sg/bin/windows/contrib/3.2
>
> Warning message:
> package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 3.2.1)
>
> Teck Kiang
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
>> wrote:
>
>> Have you trying installing it directly from CRAN?
>>
>> install.packages("lme4")
>>
>> Do you have all dependencies installed? install.packages() from CRAN will
>> take care of that. You repos = NULL you have to install all dependencies
>> manually.
>>
>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
>> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
>> Forest
>> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
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>> 1070 Anderlecht
>> Belgium
>>
>> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
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>> ~ John Tukey
>>
>> 2015-08-13 16:13 GMT+02:00 <aurora.gonzalez at openmailbox.org>:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I've downloaded the tar.gz file of the package "lme4" and when I use the
>>> coomand:
>>>
>>> install.packages("lme4_1.1-8.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
>>>
>>> appears an error that suspends the installation:
>>>
>>>
>>> In file included from external.cpp:8:0:
>>> predModule.h:12:23: fatal error: RcppEigen.h: No such file or directory
>>> compilation terminated.
>>> make: *** [external.o] Error 1
>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
>>> * removing ‘/home/aurora/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/lme4’
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to fix it? Thank you very much!
>>>
>>>
>>> My sessionInfo:
>>>
>>>
>>> R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>> [7] base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] tools_3.2.1
>>>
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