[R-sig-Debian] lme4 installation

[Scott Raynaud]

Being rather inept at all things Linux, I paid a consultant
to fix some things on my computer,  Unforntately, good 
help is hard to find.  Here's where I am:
 
...
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’
 
 
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

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=en_US.UTF-8          
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8        LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8     
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8    LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] Matrix_1.0-6   lattice_0.20-6 MASS_7.3-19    rkward_0.5.6  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.15.1   nlme_3.1-104  stats4_2.15.1 tools_2.15.1 
> 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"
 
 
> install.packages("lme4")
Installing package(s) into ‘/home/vm-cook/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://rkward.sf.net/R/src/contrib
Warning messages:
1: In open.connection(con, "r") :
  unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
2: package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1) 
> 
 
 
You can see that there's a problem with program loading lme4.  A litlle
sluething around revelaed that it's the wrong version. When I attmept to
install I get the warnings above.  
 
Also tried the apt-get command at the console to no avail:
 
vm-cook at GRNTv01:~$ sudo apt-get install lme4
[sudo] password for vm-cook: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package lme4
vm-cook at GRNTv01:~$ 

 
What next?