[R] HELP lme4 & lmerTest INSTALLATION

Wed Jan 25 11:45:26 CET 2017

Hello,

You don't need to install lme4, it comes with base R.
As for package lmerTest, I've just did

 > install.packages("lmerTest")
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
also installing the dependencies ‘checkmate’, ‘survival’, ‘Formula’, 
‘latticeExtra’, ‘acepack’, ‘gridExtra’, ‘data.table’, ‘htmlTable’, 
‘viridis’, ‘Hmisc’

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/checkmate_1.8.2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 554040 bytes (541 KB)
downloaded 541 KB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/survival_2.40-1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 5108708 bytes (4.9 MB)
downloaded 4.9 MB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/Formula_1.2-1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 163536 bytes (159 KB)
downloaded 159 KB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/latticeExtra_0.6-28.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2069570 bytes (2.0 MB)
downloaded 2.0 MB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/acepack_1.4.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 90515 bytes (88 KB)
downloaded 88 KB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/gridExtra_2.2.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 483236 bytes (471 KB)
downloaded 471 KB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/data.table_1.10.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1508659 bytes (1.4 MB)
downloaded 1.4 MB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/htmlTable_1.8.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 179208 bytes (175 KB)
downloaded 175 KB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/viridis_0.3.4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1746408 bytes (1.7 MB)
downloaded 1.7 MB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/Hmisc_4.0-2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1785840 bytes (1.7 MB)
downloaded 1.7 MB

trying URL 
'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/lmerTest_2.0-33.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1149547 bytes (1.1 MB)
downloaded 1.1 MB

package ‘checkmate’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘survival’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘Formula’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘latticeExtra’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘acepack’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘gridExtra’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘data.table’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘htmlTable’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘viridis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘lmerTest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in

C:\Users\Convidado\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpEpipqW\downloaded_packages

 > library(lmerTest)

Attaching package: ‘lmerTest’

The following object is masked from ‘package:lme4’:

     lmer

The following object is masked from ‘package:stats’:

     step

So there was no problem. And my output of install.packages() is quite 
different from yours.

If you're having a problem with lme4, maybe as an extreme mesure you 
could reinstall R.
And by the way, what is your OS? What is the output of

 > sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 
LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 

[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] lmerTest_2.0-33 lme4_1.1-12     Matrix_1.2-7.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] Rcpp_0.12.8         Formula_1.2-1       knitr_1.15.1
  [4] magrittr_1.5        cluster_2.0.5       splines_3.3.2
  [7] MASS_7.3-45         munsell_0.4.3       colorspace_1.3-1
[10] lattice_0.20-34     minqa_1.2.4         stringr_1.1.0
[13] plyr_1.8.4          tools_3.3.2         nnet_7.3-12
[16] grid_3.3.2          data.table_1.10.0   checkmate_1.8.2
[19] htmlTable_1.8       gtable_0.2.0        nlme_3.1-128
[22] latticeExtra_0.6-28 htmltools_0.3.5     digest_0.6.10
[25] survival_2.40-1     lazyeval_0.2.0      assertthat_0.1
[28] tibble_1.2          gridExtra_2.2.1     RColorBrewer_1.1-2
[31] nloptr_1.0.4        ggplot2_2.2.0       base64enc_0.1-3
[34] acepack_1.4.1       rpart_4.1-10        stringi_1.1.2
[37] backports_1.0.4     scales_0.4.1        Hmisc_4.0-2
[40] foreign_0.8-67

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 24-01-2017 21:53, CHIRIBOGA Xavier escreveu:
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I am having trouble installing lme4 package and this leads me to problems installing lmerTest, when I try to do I got this Error messages:
>
>> install.packages("lme4")
> Installing package into 'C:/Users/Hp/Documents/R/win-library/3.3'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> probando la URL 'http://cran.espol.edu.ec/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/lme4_1.1-12.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 4745943 bytes (4.5 MB)
> downloaded 4.5 MB
>
> package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package 'lme4'
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>          C:\Users\Hp\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWKmMgm\downloaded_packages
>> library(lme4)
> Error in library(lme4) : there is no package called 'lme4'
>> install.packages("lmerTest")
> Installing package into 'C:/Users/Hp/Documents/R/win-library/3.3'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> also installing the dependency 'lme4'
>
> probando la URL 'http://cran.espol.edu.ec/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/lme4_1.1-12.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 4745943 bytes (4.5 MB)
> downloaded 4.5 MB
>
> probando la URL 'http://cran.espol.edu.ec/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/lmerTest_2.0-33.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1149636 bytes (1.1 MB)
> downloaded 1.1 MB
>
> package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package 'lme4'
> package 'lmerTest' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>          C:\Users\Hp\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWKmMgm\downloaded_packages
>> library(lmerTest)
> Loading required package: Matrix
> Error: package 'lme4' required by 'lmerTest' could not be found
> Adem�s: Warning message:
> In read.dcf(file.path(p, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Version")) :
>    cannot open compressed file 'C:/Users/Hp/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/lme4/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
>
>
>
> Could yo please help me?
>
> What to do? I am using latest version : R 3.3.2.
>
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Xavier
>
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