[R-sig-ME] Installing an old version of lme4 (v 0.999999-2)

[Ben Bolker]

Javan Bauder <javanvonherp at ...> writes:

> 
> I am trying to install an old version of lme4 (v. 0.999999-2) in R
> 2.15.2 on my Windows 7 computer. The newer versions of lme4 do not
> support the analyses I am trying to conduct. 

  Why not? (Just curious.)  Missing mcmcsamp() ?

> I saved the packaged
> archive file (lme4_0.999999-2(1).tar) to my hard drive and then used
> RStudio's "Install from Package Archive File" to attempt to install
> the package. However, I received the following error message:
> 
> > install.packages("~/R/lme4_0.999999-2(1).tar.gz", 
>  repos = NULL, type = "source")

  [snip]

> *** arch - i386
> 
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'lme4'
> 
> * removing 'C:/Users/JBauder/Documents/R/win-library/2.15/lme4'
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
> 
>   running command 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.2/bin/x64/R CMD INSTALL -l
> "C:/Users/JBauder    /Documents/R/win-library/2.15"
> "C:/Users/JBauder/Documents/R/lme4_0.999999-2(1).tar.gz"' had status 1
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
> 
>   installation of package
> ‘C:/Users/JBauder/Documents/R/lme4_0.999999-2(1).tar.gz’ had non-zero
> exit status
> 

 [snip]

  Do you have all of the tools installed that are required to
build binary packages in R?

  Windows binary versions of lme4.0 (a backward compatibility
version of lme4) are available from

http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/