[R-sig-ME] Development version of lme4 has been released to CRAN

[Ken Beath]

On 24/06/2008, at 5:47 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:

> Early Sunday morning the development version of the lme4 package was
> released to CRAN.  There has already been one update version released
> and will be another later today.  The current CRAN version of the
> source and the Windows binary package is 0.999375-17.
>
> I expect that as users begin to install this package and try to run
> old code they will encounter issues.  I will be traveling and have
> limited email access from June 26 until July 2 and no email access
> from July 3 until July 8.
>
> I would appreciate it is those who are so helpful in responding to
> questions about lme4 on this list and on the R-help list could be
> extra vigilant during that period.  Some of the changes have been
> documented in the NEWS file.
>

Lack of a MacOS version seems to be first that MEMSS should be depends  
rather than suggests, then the Implementation.rnw vignette succeeds.  
Build then works for 0.999375-20 but check gives the following error

   >
   > e3 <- expand(nm3)
   > stopifnot(identical(sapply(e3, class),
   +                     c(sigma = "numeric", P = "pMatrix",
   +                       T = "dtCMatrix", S = "ddiMatrix"))
   +           , allEQ(e3$sigma, c(sigmaML = 0.76921295))
   +           , all(e3$P at perm == outer(12*(0:2), 1:12, "+"))
   +           , identical(as(e3$T, "diagonalMatrix"), Diagonal(3*12))
   +           , allEQ(e3$S at x, rep(c(0, 0.620071, 0.163092), each=12))
   +           )
   Error: identical(as(e3$T, "diagonalMatrix"), Diagonal(3 * 12)) is  
not TRUE
   Execution halted

MacOS X 10.5.3 Intel Core 2 Duo with R 2.7.1

Ken