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

[Douglas Bates]

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.  I'll correct it as soon as I
am back from teaching a class.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Peter Dalgaard
<p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> 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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