[R-SIG-Mac] lme4 fails to load in R GUI 2.8.0

[Christopher David Desjardins]

Thanks.  What I am still a bit confused about is why it loads in  
Aquamacs and from Terminal but not from R.app GUI.  This still seems  
like a bit of a mystery to me.

Chris


On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 22:30 , Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
>
>> Am I correct in thinking then that's it this old version of lme4  
>> that I have installed?  This version is from 14 October 2007 but I  
>> need this specific version for a course I'm taking.
>
> Yes, it appears so. You cannot use such an old version (binary) with  
> the current R. For the course it should not matter which version you  
> are using.
> If you feel brave, you can try to compile the old version from  
> sources in the new R (download the source .tar.gz file and use R CMD  
> INSTALL to install it). It may not work because old versions are not  
> designed to work in new R versions, but you can try your luck if you  
> really can't live with the new version.
>
> Cheers,
> S
>
>
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>> You are picking up a very ancient binary for R 2.5.0 (as you can  
>>> see from the error). Check your .libPath() for old package  
>>> binaries and remove/reinstall them.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> S
>>>
>>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I try to load lme4 on R (2.8.0) in the R GUI for Mac OS X, I  
>>>> get the following warnings and errors ...
>>>>
>>>> > library(lme4)
>>>> Loading required package: Matrix
>>>> Loading required package: lattice
>>>>
>>>> Attaching package: 'Matrix'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
>>>>
>>>> 	 xtabs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	The following object(s) are masked from package:base :
>>>>
>>>> 	 colMeans,
>>>> 	 colSums,
>>>> 	 rcond,
>>>> 	 rowMeans,
>>>> 	 rowSums
>>>>
>>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>>> unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
>>>> Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so':
>>>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/lme4/ 
>>>> libs/i386/lme4.so, 6): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/ 
>>>> R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>>>> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ 
>>>> library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so
>>>> Reason: image not found
>>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>>> 1: In namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>>>> replacing previous import: cov2cor
>>>> 2: In namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>>>> replacing previous import: update
>>>> 3: In namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>>>> replacing previous import: xtabs
>>>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'
>>>>
>>>> However, I can properly load lme4 from Aquamacs via ESS and from  
>>>> Terminal.  I get the same warnings just not the dyn.load() error.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what I need to do?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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