[R-sig-ME] problem in installing the alpha version of lme

[Peter Dalgaard]

Kari Ruohonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried just to install the alpha version of lme4 from R-forge with
>
> install.packages("lme4", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org")
>
> But I got an error saying:
>
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("lme4", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org") :
>   package ‘lme4’ is not available
>
>   

Looks like the reason is that, er, the lme4 package is not available....

http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib


Thing is, you can only get packages that way if they have passed the 
quality check, and for a package in alpha status, that is not a given. 
If you go to

http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=60

then you see two alternate downloads: A package snapshot and an SVN tree 
snapshot. The former currently leads to a build log that seems to have 
failed to create a vignette.

> My session info is as follows:
>
>   
>> sessionInfo()
>>     
> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) 
> i486-pc-linux-gnu 
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base     
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] rcompgen_0.1-17 tools_2.6.2    
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> regards, Kari
>
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