[R-sig-ME] Status of the development package lme4a

[Douglas Bates]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Matthias Gralle <gralle at bioqmed.ufrj.br> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:20:42 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote
>> I'm probably not the best person to test something like
>>
>> svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4
>>
>> but I did get a response.  I would start by listing the
>> subdirectories as there are many and you don't want them all
>>
>> bates at bates3:/tmp$ svn list svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4
>> branches/
>> pkg/
>> www/
>>
>> What you really want is in
>>
>>  svn list svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4/pkg/lme4a
>>
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>
> I have managed to install lme4a by http from the SVN repository (nightly SVN
> tree snapshot) and compile it. Ch1.R runs without a problem, specifically
>
>>pr1 <- profile(fm1ML)
>
> works fine, but
>
>> env(fm1ML)$Lambda
> Error: could not find function "env"
>
> Does this version of lme4a not include "env" anymore? Below are the exact
> versions.

Yes.  I have a bad "best is the enemy of the good problem" and have
delayed putting up revised versions of the R code in the book chapters
until I can stabilize the code base and modify the text to correspond
to the new code.  Unfortunately that is taking longer than I had
hoped.

>> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-apple-darwin9.8.0"
>
> $system
> [1] "i386, darwin9.8.0"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "55427"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)"
>
>>help(package=lme4a)
> Information on package 'lme4a'
>
> Description:
>
> Package:       lme4a
> Version:       0.999375-65
> Date:          2011-03-05