[R-sig-ME] Something broken in lme4 after update?

[Douglas Bates]

Is anyone else encountering this problem?  It looks like Mac OS X and
apparently a problem with the Matrix package declarations.  It is a
trivial-enough problem, a declaration of an argument as "const char*"
in one case and "char*" in another but I don't know which installed
version of the Matrix package this occurs in.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Nick Isaac <njbisaac at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The issue is a bit more subtle than that.  You need to reinstall the
>>> lme4 package after changing the version of the Matrix package.
>>> There is a change in the internal code in the Matrix package between
>>> -16 and -17.  The -16 version requires two versions of every function
>>> in the CHOLMOD, AMD and COLAMD libraries whereas the -17 version is
>>> back to only one version.  However, lme4 must be reinstalled (in
>>> particular, the C code must be recompiled) after a change in the
>>> Matrix package.
>
> On 28 Oct 2008, at 10:12, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
>>
>> Dear Douglas,
>>
>> Reinstalling lme4 from R-forge after removing it from the harddisk
>> worked.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>>
>
>
> I have come up against the same issue as Thierry, but Prof Bates' solution
> does not work for me. The problem seems to be at:
>
> Matrix_stubs.c:494: error: conflicting types for 'M_R_cholmod_error'
> cholmod.h:798: error: previous declaration of 'M_R_cholmod_error' was here
>
> I have tried removing both lme4 and Matrix in a different order and by
> various means (deleting the folder in library vs remove.packages()). Most
> recently, I removed both lme4 and Matrix, emptied the trash then reinstalled
> Matrix from r-forge before quitting R and restarting my machine. On
> restarting R I tried:
>
>>
>> install.packages("lme4",type="source",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")
>
> A full transcript of the session is attached.
>
> The attached is a full session history from the most recent attempt. I would
> be grateful for any suggestions.
> Best wishes, Nick
>
>
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>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>
> locale:
> en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Matrix_0.999375-17 lattice_0.17-15
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.8.0  tools_2.8.0
>
>>
>> install.packages("lme4",type="source",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")
>
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>