[R-sig-ME] lmer formula syntax?

[Dominick Samperi]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11-02-15 10:24 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Colin Wahl <biowahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I too have found the Bate's book draft helpful, but I have not been able to
>>>> get the lme4a package installed. The best description I have found to do so
>>>> is:
>>>> http://kmyu.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/installing-lme4a-in-r-mac-osx-10-6-4/
>>>
>>>> I'm understanding that the lme4a package is dependent on a number of
>>>> packages: RcppArmadillo, minqa and MatrixModels (available on CRAN
>>>> respositories) and Rcpp version 0.8.8.1 or later (which is not; version
>>>> 0.8.6 is).
>>>
>>> (Actually it doesn't depend on RcppArmadillo).
>>>
>>> You must be using Mac OS X.  If you check at
>>> cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp you will see that the Windows
>>> binary and the source code packages are at version 0.9.0 but the Mac
>>> OS X version is only at 0.8.6, which is rather old.  I'm not sure what
>>> the problem is as Romain develops on a Mac OS X system and he can't
>>> reproduce the error.
>>>
>>> However, you don't really need lme4a for most of the examples in the
>>> book.  The lme4 package can't handle the profile-related material, but
>>> the rest of the examples should be okay.  The output looks slightly
>>> different but the parameter estimates should be essentially the same.
>>>
>>
>> FYI, I just tried the current R-Forge version of lme4a using Rcpp 0.9.0
>> and there is a problem in the print function when the first argument x
>> is an image() call. This happens while trying the script Ch4.R.
>>
>> I realize this is work in progress, and I tried to use lme4 first, but there
>> was a problem with that.
>>
>> Is there a recommended snapshot/version set for minqa, MatrixModels,
>> lme4a, etc. that will run the chapter scripts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dominick
>>
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>  Have you tried the lme4a version posted at
> <http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org> (see the last paragraph on that
> page)?  If that doesn't work, please let me know and I will try to fix
> it / resolve dependencies by making them available.

Yes, that is where I fetched lme4a from, but there are dependencies
on Rcpp, minqa, MatrixModels, etc., and I downloaded those from CRAN.
I'm not sure if this combination will work.

I tried the Linux source. I will try again using the Windows binaries...

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>  Ben Bolker
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