[R-SIG-Mac] LME4 not loading

Alan Kelly akelly at tcd.ie
Wed Jul 28 18:05:47 CEST 2010


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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