[R-SIG-Mac] problem installing geepack package

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> This is something you need to take up with the geepack maintainer (who is also the doBy maintainer).  I find his misuse of Depends ridiculous: we have Suggests and Enhances for such loose dependencies.
> 
> You can easily get snow, as a source or a binary package.
> 
> Did you update your packages?  Several packages which came with 2.13.2 have updates available: one is Matrix.
> 

Matrix fails check, that's why it's not available:
http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/Matrix-00check.html

It seems like a silly reason to fail, but still, it explains ..

Cheers,
Simon


> lme4 is tied to a specific version of Matrix, and the Mac binary package repository for 2.13.2 has versions of Matrix (0.999375-50) and lme4 (0.999375-40) which do not work together for me.  But the current Matrix is 1.0-1 and current lme4 is 0.999375-42. So AFAIK the only option is to install these packages from their sources.
> 
> Simon: the binary repository on the CRAN master for 2.14.0 has not be updated for 4 weeks and is rather incomplete, and clearly the 2.13.2 area needs some updates.  With 2.14.0 less than a week away, this is getting urgent.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Kathryn Lan wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am a new R-user.  I have a Mac OS.X 10.6.8.  I have downloaded R version
>> 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) onto my computer and been able to use basic stats
>> function.   Now I want to use the geepack package and when I try to load it
>> using library(geepack), it says I have to load these dependencies.
>> Apparently, some of these packages successfully loaded but some were not
>> (doBy and lme4).  The doBy needs the snow package which R says I don't have,
>> and I don't also have lme4 package.   I'm wondering why there's so much
>> trouble trying to load this geepack.  What is the primary problem behind
>> this?
>> 
>> Thank you for your help.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> library(geepack)
>> Loading required package: doBy
>> Loading required package: survival
>> Loading required package: splines
>> Loading required package: R2HTML
>> Loading required package: multcomp
>> Loading required package: mvtnorm
>> Loading required package: 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, ...) :
>> function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'
>> Error: package 'lme4' could not be loaded
>> 
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