[R-sig-ME] Release Dates lme4 Version

[Ben Bolker]

On 14-03-16 04:03 PM, Vincent Dorie wrote:
> I wrote that in a rush so I'm likely mistaken, but when I tried to test backwards 
> compatibility using 2.15.3 the packages weren't available. Specifically the lme4 
> version for macs on CRAN was  < 1.0. It looks as if OS X users don't
have the
> same depth of backwards compatibility out of the box, although
> I suppose that could depend on the mirror.

  Well, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib should be the
reference site, and that appears only to have binaries available for
3.0, 3.1, r-devel, and r-release.  I'm not even sure where packages
would be pulled from for R 2.15.3 ...

> 
> Anyhow, moral may or may not be: just upgrade everything.
> 
> On Mar 16, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
>>
>>  Hmmm. As Brian Ripley pointed out to me offline,
>>
>>> Not so.  RcppEigen (> 0.3.1.2.3) appears to mean >= 0.3.2.0, which
>> depends on Rcpp (>= 0.10.5) and R (>= 2.15.1) (also the dependence of
>> Rcpp 0.10.5).
>>
>>  I just double-checked this myself and (as usual) he seems to be right.
>>
>>  Vince, maybe you were looking at RcppEigen 0.3.2.1.1 instead?
>>
>>  Rolf, where were you looking on CRAN for RcppEigen?
>>
>> * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppEigen/index.html shows
>> version 0.3.2.1.1
>> * The Windows binary available for 2.15 is 0.3.2.0.2:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RcppEigen_0.3.2.0.2.zip
>>
>>  cheers
>>    Ben Bolker
>>
>>
>> On 14-03-14 07:27 PM, Vincent Dorie wrote:
>>> As far as I can tell, there is a bit of understating when it comes to
>>> version numbers for R itself. RcppEigen 0.3.1.2.1 depends on Rcp
>>> 0.11.0, which in turn depends on R 3.0.0. So even though just about
>>> every package in the lme4 chain claims to work on 2.15 or so, the
>>> backwards compatibility has been broken.
>>>
>>> On Mar 14, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15/03/14 07:11, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>>>> Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT <wolfgang.viechtbauer at ...> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great! Looking forward to the new version on CRAN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best, Wolfgang
>>>>>
>>>>> New version (1.1-5) is on CRAN now; binaries gradually being
>>>>> built/ propagating to mirrors.  See 
>>>>> https://github.com/lme4/lme4/blob/master/inst/NEWS.Rd for changes
>>>>> in this release ...
>>>>
>>>> Just tried to install version 1.1-5 (tar ball obtained from
>>>> Austrian mirror).  It complains that  "‘RcppEigen’ 0.3.1.2.1 is
>>>> being loaded, but 0.3.1.2.3 is required".
>>>>
>>>> But the latest version of RcppEigen that I can find on CRAN is good
>>>> ol' 0.3.1.2.1.
>>>>
>>>> So do I have to go somewhere else to get 0.3.1.2.3?  That's a bit
>>>> bewildering for us bunnies.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rolf Turner
>>>>
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