[R-sig-ME] lme4Eigen's bootMer & installing latest svn

[Ben Bolker]

Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at ...> writes:

> I'm playing with lme4Eigen (version 0.9996875-8, running on Mac OS
> 10.7.3 using R 2.14.2) and am quite excited by the new bootMer()
> function. However, when I try to run it, regardless of what fit I
> provide for the argument "x" or function I provide for the argument
> "FUN" (including running the examples), I get the error:
> 
> Error in envRefInferField(x, what, getClass(class(x)), selfEnv) :
>   "resp" is not a valid field or method name for reference class “lmerResp”
> 
> I presume that this is why the bootMer documentation example section
> says "## Not run: %%--- fails for now --- FIXME"? I just thought I'd
> double-check.

  More recently (version 12) this should work ...
> 
> Also, I thought I'd make sure the devs know that the latest svn
> version doesn't build on mac; when I try to do so, I get the error:
> 
> glmFamily.cpp: In member function ‘virtual const Eigen::ArrayXd
> glm::negativeBinomialDist::variance(const Eigen::ArrayXd&) const’:
> glmFamily.cpp:228: error: ‘Rcout’ is not a member of ‘Rcpp’


 Thanks for the heads-up.  I will check into it and try to see about
getting new binary versions of RcppEigen and lme4Eigen up on the
repository -- although possibly not before Monday.

  cheers
    Ben