[R-sig-ME] Problem updating to newer version of lme4

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "BZ" == Ben Zuckerberg <bz73 at cornell.edu>
>>>>>     on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:06:32 -0500 writes:

    BZ> I just updated to the new lme4 (v28), but now it will
    BZ> not load the library and I get the following message:

    BZ> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now),
    BZ> ...) : function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by
    BZ> package 'Matrix' 

uh oh,... I think that means that your version of Matrix is 
outdated as well (or even more).

Have you tried  update.packages()
which should automatically update your version of Matrix, too?

Regards,
Martin

    BZ> In addition: Warning message: package 'lme4' was built under R version 2.7.2 Error:
    BZ> package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'