[R-sig-ME] lmList error in lme4a

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David A Springate
<david.springate at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks, Ben
>
> I re-installed lme4a from scratch and it works fine now!
>
> BTW if I do require(lme4a), I still see lme4 "loaded via a namespace" in
> sessionInfo(), even if I start with R --vanilla

Must be coming from another package as lme4a does not load lme4.

> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:11 -0400, Ben Bolker wrote:
>> On 06/09/2011 05:35 AM, David A Springate wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I am trying to use the lmList function from lme4a, but I get the
>> > following error even with the example sleepstudy dataset:
>> >
>> >> require(lme4a)
>> >> lmList(Reaction ~ Days | Subject, sleepstudy)
>> > Call: lmList(formula = Reaction ~ Days | Subject, data = sleepstudy)
>> > Coefficients:
>> > Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
>> >   invalid type of argument[1]: 'language'
>> >
>>   It works for me ...  I would try starting from a clean session,
>> especially making sure that you have *not* tried to load lme4 previously
>> (I see you have it "loaded via a namespace" below).
>> (Hmmm, I just tried loading and then detaching lme4 to get the same
>> "loaded via namespace" effect, and it didn't break for me.)
>>
>>   Ben Bolker
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lme4a_0.999375-67  MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
>> Rcpp_0.9.4.1
>> [5] Matrix_0.999375-50 lattice_0.19-26
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] codetools_0.2-8 grid_2.13.0     nlme_3.1-101    splines_2.13.0
>> [5] tools_2.13.0
>> >
>>
>> > Am I missing something or is this a bug?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >> sessionInfo()
>> > R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>> > Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>> >
>> > locale:
>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
>> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> >
>> > attached base packages:
>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> > [7] base
>> >
>> > other attached packages:
>> > [1] lme4a_0.999375-67  MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
>> > [4] Rcpp_0.9.4.2       Matrix_0.999375-50 lattice_0.19-23
>> >
>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> > [1] codetools_0.2-8  grid_2.13.0      lme4_0.999375-39
>> > [4] nlme_3.1-100     splines_2.13.0   stats4_2.13.0
>> > [7] tcltk_2.13.0     tools_2.13.0
>> >
>> >> str(sleepstudy)
>> > 'data.frame':   180 obs. of  3 variables:
>> >  $ Reaction: num  250 259 251 321 357 ...
>> >  $ Days    : num  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
>> >  $ Subject : Factor w/ 18 levels "308","309","310",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 ..
>> >
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