[R-sig-ME] lmList error in lme4a

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Thu Jun 9 18:34:45 CEST 2011 

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:39 AM, David A Springate
<david.springate at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:24 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It does seem to on my machine... Is this likely to be a problem?

Not if just the namespace is attached but we should check to see why.

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>> 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
> base
>> library(lme4a)
> Loading required package: Matrix
> Loading required package: lattice
>
> Attaching package: 'Matrix'
>
> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
>
>    det
>
> Loading required package: minqa
> Loading required package: Rcpp
> Loading required package: MatrixModels
>
> Attaching package: 'lme4a'
>
> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:stats':
>
>    AIC, BIC
>
>> 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
> base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] lme4a_0.999375-65  MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
> Rcpp_0.9.4.2
> [5] 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 nlme_3.1-100
> [5] splines_2.13.0   stats4_2.13.0
>>
>> > 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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