[R-sig-ME] Glmer Stack Imbalance Warning

[Kevin Thorpe]

A colleague recently experienced this error (don’t remember if it was a mixed model or not) but re-startinf R fixed it.

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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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> On Feb 15, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  This is surprising; I don't recall ever seeing this error in conjunction with lme4, although there is a brief discussion of it (but without a reproducible example) in this mailing list thread from 12 years ago.
> 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2009q3/002851.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2009q3/002857.html
> 
> If it's reproducible, this would definitely constitute a bug in lme4.  At the very least, we would need the output of sessionInfo().  As an attempt at a "turn it off and back on again"-style solution, I would suggest reinstalling Rcpp, RcppEigen, and lme4 (in that order), preferably from source ...
> 
>  cheers
>   Ben Bolker
> 
> On 2/15/22 1:51 PM, Hedyeh Ahmadi wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm running a glmer model and I'm getting a "stack imbalance" warning. When I searched for explanations, it looks like it's a programing bug.
>> Here is a link with some information (that might be relevant) that I don't fully understand:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6779530/what-is-a-stack-imbalance
>> I was wondering if you can help me understanding this warning in general. Any help would be appreciated and thank you in advance.
>> Best,
>> Hedyeh
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