[R-sig-ME] lme4 versions

[Ben Bolker]

Ross Boylan <ross at ...> writes:

> 
> 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.

  I need to update the installation instructions on R-forge, but for right now
your choices are:

 1. stable lme4: install from CRAN.
 2. development lme4:
    * install binaries from http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos
      OR
    * install via devtools::install_github.  Right now the modular branch
install_github("lme4","lme4","modular") is slightly ahead of the
main branch (install_github("lme4","lme4")

  cheers
   Ben Bolker