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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "KB" == Ken Beath <kjbeath at kagi.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:16:52 +1000 writes:

    KB> 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.

    KB> Lack of a MacOS version seems to be first that MEMSS should be depends  
    KB> rather than suggests, 

no, not at all:
>From "Writing R Extensions":

 >>    The optional `Suggests' field uses the same syntax as `Depends' and
 >> lists packages that are not necessarily needed.  This includes packages
 >> used only in examples or vignettes (*note Writing package vignettes::),

and it is true that you need the 'Suggests' packages when
*building* or *checking* the package itself.

    KB> then the Implementation.rnw vignette succeeds.  

(yes, see above)

    KB> Build then works for 0.999375-20 but check gives the following error

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

This looks like you are not using the current version of
'Matrix',  0.999375-10
which *is* required by  lme *-20, so I think you did not get
correct versions of one of the two packages.

Martin

    KB> MacOS X 10.5.3 Intel Core 2 Duo with R 2.7.1

    KB> Ken