[R-SIG-Mac] LME4 not loading

[Alan Kelly]

Simon's solution worked perfectly.
Many thanks for assistance Simon.
Alan

Dr. Alan Kelly
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
Director of the Small Area Health Research Unit (SAHRU)
Department of Public Health & Primary Care
Trinity College Centre for Health Sciences
Adelaide & Meath Hospital
Tallaght
Dublin 24



Quoting Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>:

>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Alan Kelly wrote:
>
> > Martin, my experience may only add to the confusion.  When I upgraded to
> 2.11 on
> > my office Mac I had a similar problem when loading lme4 from CRAN.
> However, I
> > found the package on R-forge and successfully installed it. On trying the
> same
> > procedure on my home Mac running 2.11.1, this approach fails with the
> following
> > error (this differs from yours):
> >> library(lme4)
> > Loading required package: Matrix
> > Loading required package: lattice
> >
> > Attaching package: 'Matrix'
> >
> > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
> >
> >    det
> >
> > 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: /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib
> >  Referenced from:
> > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so
> >  Reason: image not found
> > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'
> >
>
> The Rforge is not mapping libgfortran correctly hence the error. You can work
> around that by installing gfortran from CRAN - but please read on instead.
>
>
> > And you will not be able to load "arm" as this depends on "lme4".
>
> I have created extra "untested" repository for this, you can now install lme4
> (CRAN version but ignoring check failures) using
>
>
install.packages("lme4",,"http://r.research.att.com/",type='mac.binary.untested')
>
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
> > Frustrating....
> > Regards,
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Kelly
> > Trinity College Dublin
> >
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