[R-SIG-Mac] lme4 in Lion?

[Simon Urbanek]

Katherine,

On Sep 25, 2011, at 10:17 PM, Katherine Hayden wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is lme4 working well in Lion?

Yes.


> I haven't been able to get it to load on
> my 0S 10.7 Mac,

How did you install it? Try
install.packages("lme4")
that works for me on Lion without problems. If you have some particular problem with it, please let us know.


> and I haven't been able to make the fixes I've seen
> elsewhere work for me. I have installed XCode 4.1.1 (including running
> the installer the AppStore installed!), as well as GNU fortran 4.2.4
> for Lion from r.research.att.com.
> 
> I've installed lme4 as type="source" from CRAN, but when I'm trying to
> load the library in R (64-bit, 2.13.1 Patched) I get this error:


I do not recommend it since we do provide a binary, but if you insist, please make sure you switched to R BLAS first as mentioned in the thread you quote.

Cheers,
Simon


> 
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/x86_64/lme4.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/x86_64/lme4.so,
> 6): Library not loaded: libRblas.dylib
>  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/x86_64/lme4.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'
> 
> If I try loading it the 32-bit R.app, there's an extra line in the
> error message, with something about Version 2.5:
> 
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so,
> 6): Library not loaded:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
>  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'
> 
> Following Simon Urbanek's suggestion from a similar question last year
> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-July/007601.html), I
> also tried installing the package from his untested binary, but it
> seems it's not available for this version:
> 
>> install.packages("lme4",,"http://r.research.att.com/",type='mac.binary.untested')
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/untested/contrib/2.13
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1 Patched)
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated!
> -- 
> Katherine Hayden
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Forest Pathology & Mycology Lab
> University of California, Berkeley
> 
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