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

[flip]

Ok thanks all- so many sigs, so little time!

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On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:58 AM, "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> It looks like Ben is aware of the issue and fixing it:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2013q2/020170.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
>