[R-sig-ME] Use of the lme4a package

[Ben Bolker]

On 03/22/2011 03:55 PM, Phillip Chapman wrote:
> Thanks for that info.
> 
> Yes, the problem that I am currently working on involves using nlmer
> within the lme4a package (I now see that my message had the typo
> "glmer"). I also have other problems for which I would like to use lmer
> and glmer within lme4a.)
> 
> I copied and pasted your suggested command into R, with the following
> results:
> 
> 
>> install.packages("lme4a",repos="http://repos.lme4.r-forge.r-project.org")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://repos.lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.12
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> package ‘lme4a’ is not available


  Oops, my mistake.  How about

install.packages("lme4a",repos="http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos")

  instead?
  (See <http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/>) for general info, including
the correct form of this incantation.)


  Ben

+
> Do you see what is going wrong?
> 
> Phil
> 
> On 3/22/2011 1:44 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>> On 03/22/2011 01:14 PM, Phillip Chapman wrote:
>>> Dear ME board,
>>>
>>> I am fitting a nonlinear mixed model using nlmer in the lme4 package,
>>> and I would like to check the convergence for some of my models.  In
>>> particular, I would like to use glmer in the lme4a package to calculate
>>> the likelihood for parameter values that I give it. I see from the
>>> boards that using nAGQ=0 in lme4a stops the iteration and may do what I
>>> want.
>>>
>>> I tried the following on my 32 bit Windows XP machine:  (I have R
>>> version 2.12.2 installed.)
>>>
>>> />  install.packages("lme4a", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>> Warning message:
>>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>>>     package 'lme4a' is not available
>>> ///
>>> Does someone have links to:
>>> (1) installation instructions for lme4a, and
>>> (2) documentation for how to use it?
>>>
>>>    I have seen messages with various instructions and various problems,
>>> but I am not sure I am looking at the latest.
>>>
>>    Do you mean using nlmer in the lme4a package?
>>
>>
>>    Try
>>
>>   
>> install.packages("lme4a",repos="http://repos.lme4.r-forge.r-project.org")
>>
>>    and see if that works.
>>
>