[R-SIG-Mac] lmer cannot find functions

Reinhold Kliegl reinhold.kliegl at gmail.com
Sat May 13 14:16:38 CEST 2006


Hi,

Sorry for the false alarm.  After starting R with --no-restore,  
everything worked. Apparently my workspace images are all corrupted.

Best
Reinhold

> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 11:57:46 +0200
> From: Reinhold Kliegl <reinhold.kliegl at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] lmer cannot find functions
> To: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> Hi,
>
> I have a problem accessing "lmer.R" from the Matrix package 0.995-10
> on a MacBook Pro after upgrading to 2.3.0.
>
>>  (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy))
> Error in do.call("lmerControl", control) :
> 	could not find function "lmerControl"
>
> When I define the "lmerControl" function contained in "lmer.R"
> directly, the program stops at "subbars" which is the next function
> in "lmer.R".
> So obviously, my new installation does not work properly.
>
>> (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy))
> Error in lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days | Subject), sleepstudy) :
> 	could not find function "subbars"
>
> I use the following setup which I compiled with gcc4.0.3.
> Version 2.3.0 Patched (2006-05-11 r38037)
> i386-apple-darwin8.6.1
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets"  "base"
>
> other attached packages:
>        lme4    lattice     Matrix
> "0.995-2"   "0.13-8" "0.995-10"
>
> I have not run into any problems with other packages (e.g., installed
> automatically along with R, e.g., nlme, or by myself, e.g., HMisc).
>
> I  had "lmer" working fine on this machine before I upgraded to
> 2.3.0, but I get the same error when I go back to the 2..2.1
> (universal binary) now.
>
> I also get the same error after installing "Matrix 0.995-8".
>
> lmer works fine on another Macintosh G5 machine which I did not
> upgrade (R-version 2.2.1, powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Matrix 0.995-4)
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Best
> Reinhold

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Reinhold Kliegl
Dept. of Psychology, University of Potsdam
PO Box 601553, 14415 Potsdam, Germany
phone: +493319772868, fax: +493319772793
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