[R-sig-ME] Upcoming changes in lme4

[Reinhold Kliegl]

I confirm Mike's report with high appreciation for this line of code.
Thank you very much, Mike!
Reinhold Kliegl

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca> wrote:
> I can at least confirm that on my system (Mac OS 10.7.2, xcode 4.1, R
> 2.14.2), RcppEigen builds fine while running the following in the
> 64-bit GUI:
>
> install.packages('RcppEigen',type='source',INSTALL_opts='--byte-compile')
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Federico Calboli
> <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On 7 Feb 2012, at 17:47, Douglas Bates wrote:
>>>
>>> I forgot to mention an important point for Mac OS X users.  The new
>>> lme4, which is based on the Eigen linear algebra library, requires the
>>> RcppEigen package for which there is no binary Mac OS X package on
>>> CRAN.  It's a ridiculous situation that comes about because Apple
>>> ships an antique version of gcc in their XCode development
>>> environment, and won't upgrade because of licensing disagreements.
>>> Even that very old version of g++ compiles the package successfully
>>> for Intel Macs but it croaks when trying to cross-compile for the ppc
>>> architecture.  You can see at
>>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/RcppEigen-00install.html
>>> that the advice it to inform Apple of the compiler error but they
>>> ignore such reports.  Things may improve when XCode 4 is in use
>>> because it provides clang++ in addition to the same very old version
>>> of g++.  In the meantime we will provide a binary i386 Mac OS X
>>> package for RcppEigen.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the hard work, it is very much appreciated. I use R 64-bit more than R 32-bit, but I guess all I have to do is to compile the package by hand (I'm on OS 10.7.3, and have Xcode 4.2.1, i.e. intel mac + clang), right?
>>
>> I never had any problems compiling packages where binaries were not available, I do not see how RccpEigen should give me more grief.
>>
>> Best wishes and, again, many thanks
>>
>> F
>>
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