[R-sig-ME] lme4 and Matrix from R-forge

[John Maindonald]

Installing from source has been successful.  I had to do this for lme4
as well as for Matrix.  I presume that the warning messages can be
ignored, for now at least.
Thanks
John.

John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
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On 3 May 2008, at 1:49 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:

> It seems to me that those messages are coming from the attempt to load
> the Matrix package.  It looks a bit peculiar in that the compiled code
> for the Matrix package is in the file Matrix.so and it is linked
> against libRlapack.dylib.  That seems inconsistent.
>
> If you have the necessary tools installed then I would recommend
> installing the Matrix package from the source file.  I believe that
> the version on CRAN and the source version on R-forge should both be
> acceptable.
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:34 AM, John Maindonald
> <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>> I am wondering if there is a problem with attaching the latest lme4  
>> and
>> Matrix from R-forge.
>>
>>> library(lme4)
>> Loading required package: Matrix
>> Loading required package: lattice
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>> unable to load shared library
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/Matrix/libs/i386/ 
>> Matrix.so':
>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/Matrix/ 
>> libs/i386/Matrix.so,
>> 6): Library not loaded:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/lib/ 
>> libRlapack.dylib
>> Referenced from:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/Matrix/libs/i386/ 
>> Matrix.so
>> Reason: image not found
>> Error: package 'Matrix' could not be loaded
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-01 r45578)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>>
>> locale:
>> en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lattice_0.17-6
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.7.0
>>
>> It is possible I have corrupted my installation; I first tried to  
>> install
>> Matrix_0.999375-10.tgz with the CRAN version of lme4 installed,
>> then tried to go back to the CRAN version of Matrix.  My version
>> of lme4 is lme4_0.999375-14.tgz
>>
>> John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
>> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
>> Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
>> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
>> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
>>
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