Thank you Simon and Prof Brian for your tips.  I talked to a friend who uses
2.11 version and the geepack worked fine on her Mac. So I installed the old
version and it is now working.  I will wait for the new version 2.14 to come
out to see if it is better.



On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek@r-project.org>wrote:

>
> 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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> >
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