[R-sig-ME] nlme issue

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>
>>>>>     on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:43:58 +0200 writes:

    > Dear Raymond,
    > I would recommend to contact the maintainers of those packages. Maybe
    > something changed in nlme and did not percolate into those packages.

Well, I think rather:
One of the packages you use,  it could well be  nlme or Matrix
must be re-installed in your R version 3.4.1

Typically, you just do (once)

    update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)

and wait a while for it to be finished.

Then (restart R and) everything should work fine.

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich  &  R Core Team

  
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    > 2017-07-18 0:15 GMT+02:00 Chiruka, Raymond <RChiruka at ufh.ac.za>:

    >> Good day
    >> 
    >> I am using R 3.4.1 on Rstudio on windows
    >> I was trying the examples for fitting sitar growth models.I am getting the
    >> following error when run  examples in package sitar and package gmusim.
    >> 
    >> The code I tried is the following.
    >> 
    >> > library("gmusim", lib.loc="C:/Users/RChiruka/Documents/R/rpackages")
    >> Loading required package: lattice
    >> Loading required package: nlme
    >> Loading required package: splines
    >> 
    >> I get the following error.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> > x <- immigrant$age
    >> 
    >> > y <- immigrant$height
    >> 
    >> > id <- immigrant$id
    >> 
    >> > df <- 5
    >> 
    >> > resu1 <- gmusim(x,y,id,df)
    >> 
    >> Error in pdFactor.pdLogChol(X[[i]], ...) : object 'logChol_pd' not found
    >> 
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    >> 
    >> When I tried running the following sitar example I got the same error
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> > library("sitar", lib.loc="C:/Users/RChiruka/Documents/R/rpackages")
    >> 
    >> > data(heights)
    >> 
    >> > (m1 <- sitar(x=age, y=height, id=id, data=heights, df=5))
    >> 
    >> Error in pdFactor.pdLogChol(X[[i]], ...) : object 'logChol_pd' not found
    >> 
    >> > m1 <- sitar(x=age, y=height, id=id, data=heights, df=7)
    >> 
    >> Error in pdFactor.pdLogChol(X[[i]], ...) : object 'logChol_pd' not found
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I don't know what is wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
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    >> Regards
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Raymond
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