[R-sig-ME] lme4a?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I was able to use install.packages to install version 652 (the current
version at the time) of lme4a on my Vista system.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
>  I'm not sure, but I got it via SVN.  I don't see lme4a exposed
> anywhere on r-forge.
>
>  As the web page suggests
>
> svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4
> [move to appropriate directory]
> cd pkg
> R CMD INSTALL lme4a
>
> [you'll need to have all the appropriate build tools installed]
>
>  HOWEVER: lme4a is under EXTREMELY rapid (=unstable) development, and
> the current version is broken on my system -- I think (???) that there's
> a "mer.h" file that's supposed to have been added but didn't get in.
>
>  The current version on SVN is r685; I had to back up to r679 to get a
> working version.
>
>  r680 log says "Removing definitions no longer used" -- perhaps
> something extra got removed?
>
>  (I have mucked around with things a bit, so there's an outside chance
> that this is my fault -- can anyone else confirm?)
>
> glee wrote:
>> I am attempting to following along with Douglas Bates book draft.
>>
>> R Forge claims that the following works automatically:
>>
>> install.packages("lme4a", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>
>> but I get
>>
>> … package ‘lme4a’ is not available.
>>
>> Attempting to obtain the source manually from the lme4 project page
>> (which points to):
>>
>> http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/lme4a_0.999375-46.tar.gz
>>
>> produces page not found.
>>
>> I presume this means something is broken? Or is the expectation that
>> we fetch from SVN?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
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>
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> Ben Bolker
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