Thank you Ben!
Thats exactly what happend. The problem was solved after reinstalling
the packages in the mentioned order.
Now everything including running 'sim' on a GLMM works fine!

/Johannes


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker@gmail.com> wrote:

>   This are the exact symptoms of having a mismatch between your Matrix,
> RcppEigen, and lme4 versions ... try reinstalling them in that order.
>
>   Ben Bolker
>
> On 13-11-07 11:43 AM, lancelot wrote:
> > everything's fine for me with the development version of lme4 (github)
> >
> >> library(arm)
> > Le chargement a nécessité le package : MASS
> > Le chargement a nécessité le package : Matrix
> > Le chargement a nécessité le package : lme4
> > Le chargement a nécessité le package : lattice
> >
> > arm (Version 1.6-09, built: 2013-9-23)
> >
> > Working directory is D:/Analyses
> >
> >> library(lme4)
> >> set.seed (1)
> >> J <- 15
> >> n <- J*(J+1)/2
> >> group <- rep (1:J, 1:J)
> >> mu.a <- 5
> >> sigma.a <- 2
> >> a <- rnorm (J, mu.a, sigma.a)
> >> b <- -3
> >> x <- rnorm (n, 2, 1)
> >> y <- rbinom (n, 1, invlogit (a[group] + b*x))
> >> mod <- glmer (y ~ x + (1 | group), family=binomial(link="logit"))
> >> getME(mod, "L")
> > 'MatrixFactorization' of Formal class 'dCHMsimpl' [package "Matrix"]
> > with 10 slots
> >   ..@ x       : num [1:15] 1.22 1.22 1.1 1.44 1.74 ...
> >   ..@ p       : int [1:16] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
> >   ..@ i       : int [1:15] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
> >   ..@ nz      : int [1:15] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
> >   ..@ nxt     : int [1:17] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
> >   ..@ prv     : int [1:17] 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
> >   ..@ colcount: int [1:15] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
> >   ..@ perm    : int [1:15] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
> >   ..@ type    : int [1:4] 2 1 0 1
> >   ..@ Dim     : int [1:2] 15 15
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> > Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
> > [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> > [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] arm_1.6-09      lme4_1.1-1      lattice_0.20-25 Matrix_1.1-0
> > MASS_7.3-29
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] abind_1.4-1    coda_0.16-1    fortunes_1.5-1 grid_3.0.2
> > minqa_1.2.1    nlme_3.1-111
> > [7] splines_3.0.2  tools_3.0.2
> >
> >
> > Idem with the 64-bit version of R
> >
> > Renaud
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 07/11/2013 17:31, Johannes Radinger a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Actually I tried to use the sim function from the package "arm" to get
> >> posterior simulations of beta from a merMod.
> >> But somehow this function crashed and I could trace the problem back
> >> to the
> >> function getME(model,"L") which is
> >> the cause for the crash.
> >> For example here an example dataset for a binomial model (glmer) from
> the
> >> sim function in the 'arm'-package:
> >>
> >> set.seed (1)
> >> J<- 15
> >> n<- J*(J+1)/2
> >> group<- rep (1:J, 1:J)
> >> mu.a<- 5
> >> sigma.a<- 2
> >> a<- rnorm (J, mu.a, sigma.a)
> >> b<- -3
> >> x<- rnorm (n, 2, 1)
> >> y<- rbinom (n, 1, invlogit (a[group] + b*x))
> >>
> >> mod<- glmer (y ~ x + (1 | group), family=binomial(link="logit"))
> >>
> >> When I now run getME(mod, "L") my R session completely crashes with
> >> following error:
> >> *** caught segfault ***
> >> address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'
> >>
> >> Traceback:
> >>   1: .Call(merPredDL, ptr())
> >>   2: PR$L()
> >>   3: getME(mod, "L")
> >>
> >> Possible actions:
> >> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> >> 2: normal R exit
> >> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> >> 4: exit R saving workspace
> >>
> >> I am running following setup:
> >>
> >> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> >> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> >>
> >> locale:
> >>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> >>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> >> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>
> >> attached base packages:
> >> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >>
> >> other attached packages:
> >> [1] arm_1.6-09      lme4_1.0-5      lattice_0.20-24 Matrix_1.1-0
> >> MASS_7.3-29
> >>
> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >> [1] abind_1.4-0   coda_0.16-1   grid_3.0.2    minqa_1.2.1   nlme_3.1-111
> >> splines_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2
> >>
> >> Can anyone reproduce this problem?
> >>
> >> /Johannes
> >>
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> >
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