[R-sig-ME] lme4a?

[Ben Bolker]

  how about

  install.packages("Matrix",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")

?
(not sure, but worth a try)

  Ben

glee wrote:
>> svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4
> 
> I am behind a university firewall which (apparently) has port 3690
> (svn:// default) blocked.
> 
> The nightly snapshot (linked from
> http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=60) downloads ok, and
> appears to build, but fails with
> 
> Error : package 'Matrix' 0.999375-37 was found, but >= 0.999375.38 is
> required by 'lme4a'
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘lme4a’
> 
> As far as I can see 0.999375-37 is the latest version available on CRAN.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions. At least this path appears that it could
> work, if I am able to satisfy dependencies. I will keep trying.
> 
> 
> On 4 March 2010 11:43, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
>>  My apologies.  It was my fault (doh!)
>>  however, "under rapid development" is still true -- glmer appears to
>> be working now, but that's recent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben Bolker 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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>>
>> --
>> Ben Bolker
>> Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida
>> bolker at ufl.edu / people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker
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>>


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Ben Bolker
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