[R-sig-ME] problems installing the new lme4 (forthcoming 1.0) on Linux server

[Ben Bolker]

 <gregor.hochschild at ...> writes:

>  Hi, the new version if lme4 looks great! It works perfectly on my
> own computer (Mac OSX 10.7) but I am having problems installing it
> on server without root access (I don't believe that the root access
> is the issue though). I installed the most recent R version, and
> followed the instructions here: http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/
> Nothing worked though. Below are the error messages, the output from
> sessionInfo ans some more system info from the shell. Any ideas?

  Hmmm.  Do you have the latest versions of Rcpp and RcppEigen
installed?

> > install.packages("lme4",repos="http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos")
> long list of errors such as
> predModule.h:98: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&’ token
> ...
> external.cpp:950: error: ‘NULL’ was not declared in this scope
> make: *** [external.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’

  Can you show the *beginning* of the list of errors?
  Can you give the results of gcc --version ?
  (That looks like a pretty old kernel -- I have 2.6.32-41 , and
I'm using a LTS Ubuntu release from 2 years ago ...)

> Linux [server] 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 31 13:22:04 EDT
> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux