Message-ID: <4B4A30C5.6070708@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-01-10T19:55:49Z
From: Esmail
Subject: lme4 and function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix' / Ubuntu
In-Reply-To: <40e66e0b1001100940o48416b1dr480c338c170dbbf9@mail.gmail.com>
On 10-Jan-10 12:40, Douglas Bates wrote:
> As Dieter points out, this is likely a mismatch between the versions
> of the lme4 and the Matrix packages, which are very closely linked
> together. It appears that the version of the lme4 package is too old
> for the version of the Matrix package, which is hard to catch in the
> dependencies (lme4 depends on Matrix but not the other way around).
> As Dieter suggests, it would be best to install the most recent
> version of R which can then pull in the most recent versions of the
> lme4 and Matrix packages.
Hi,
Yes, you were both right on the money. I took your suggestion and
upgraded R to 2.10.1 and I had to install lme4 and zelig from source
to get the current packages.
Thanks again!
Esmail