[R-sig-ME] lme4 versions

[Ross Boylan]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:59 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Running from Debian Squeeze with R 2.15.3 I tried
> install.packages("lme4",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")
> but got
> package ‘lme4’ is not available (for R version 2.15.3)
> 
> Then I got the latest svn from r-forge (only later realizing I didn't
> need the whole thing) and built pkg/lme4.  Is that an appropriate
> version?
> 
> Then I recalled Ben's instructions that git has the latest version, but
> I need some Debian packages installed before that will work
> (libcurl-devel; I'm guessing I'll need some git stuff too).
I got the installation from git working.  It seems to be the same
version either way, since the git install got lme4_0.99999911-0.tar.gz.
> 
> BTW, I'm using lme4 in 2 separate projects, one on MS Windows and one on
> Linux.  Unfortunately I don't have admin rights for either.
> 
> Ross Boylan
>