[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0, lme4, and the oft unloved Mac OS

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:32 AM, flip wrote:

> 
> Greetings-
> 
> I've noticed that lme4 isn't available for Mac under R 3.
> 
> Looks like its throwing errors at compile time, according to the logs. 

More precisely, if fails checks:

checking tests ... ERROR
Running the tests in 'tests/simulate.R' failed.
Last 13 lines of output:
> s4 <- simulate(gm1,10)
> stopifnot(is.list(s4), sapply(s4,ncol)==2,
+ sapply(s4,nrow) == nrow(cbpp))
> showProc.time()
Time elapsed: 0.232 0.002 0.234 
> 
> r1 <- pboot(gm0,gm1, 10)
Error in logLik(refit(m1, s)) : 
error in evaluating the argument 'object' in selecting a method for function 'logLik': Error in mer_finalize(object) : 
Downdated X'X is not positive definite, 1.
Calls: refit -> refit -> mer_finalize -> .Call
Calls: pboot -> apply -> FUN -> logLik
Execution halted

that's why it's not available. I tried two different compilers just to make sure it's not a compiler issue and it throws the same error, so I fear this is over to the maintainers.

Cheers,
Simon



> I'm tempted to just pull it down and build it myself, but thought I'd let the list / Simon know too.
> 
>> install.packages("lme4"), Warning in install.packages :,   package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0),    package ‘lme4’ is available as a source package but not as a binary, Warning in install.packages :,   package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0)
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