SOLVED: loading lme4 fails - "function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'"
Thanks Thierry and the Prof, Removing the files and then reloading them seems to have done the trick. I don't understand why it worked, but it did. Megan Megan Davies Policy and Advice Officer, Statistician Scottish Natural Heritage 01463 725072
"ONKELINX, Thierry" <Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be> 04-02-2009 12:40 >>>
Megan, Try to uninstall both packages, remove them from the harddrive and then reinstall them. That worked for me when I had a similar problem (lme4 complaining about Matrix). HTH, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Megan Davies Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2009 12:49 Aan: Prof Brian Ripley CC: r-help at r-project.org Onderwerp: Re: [R] loading lme4 fails - "function 'cholmod_l_start'not providedbypackage 'Matrix'" Thanks again Prof, I downloaded the latest lme4 today. In the description file, it says, "Version: 0.999375-28". I've just checked this against the version available on CRAN and its the same. Megan Megan Davies Policy and Advice Officer, Statistician Scottish Natural Heritage 01463 725072
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 04-02-2009 11:42 >>>
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Megan Davies wrote:
Thanks Prof, As you can see from my session information (below), I appear to be using the same version of Matrix as yourself. However, I also notice that you're using a patched version of 2.8.1 whereas I'm not. Could this be the difference?
It should not, and I just checked the original 2.8.1 to be sure.
sessionInfo() R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] Matrix_0.999375-20 lattice_0.17-20
But we don't have the lme4 version, so please re-check that.
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.8.1 tools_2.8.1 Megan Megan Davies Policy and Advice Officer, Statistician Scottish Natural Heritage 01463 725072
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 04-02-2009 11:13 >>>
Did you update your version of Matrix? It should be 0.99375-20 (or perhaps -18). E.g. for me
sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-02-04 r47838) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] lme4_0.999375-28 Matrix_0.999375-20 lattice_0.17-20 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.8.1 tools_2.8.1 worked. R 2.9.0 will check versions when loading a package, but 2.8.1 does not. On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Megan Davies wrote:
Hello UseRs, I've just tried to load the lme4 package and got the error message, "function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by package 'Matrix'". I downloaded the latest version of lme4 and its required packages (lattice and Matrix) as suggested in the archives and still got this message. The FAQ and archives suggested to check the R version
and also the package version requirements.
requirements, but I'm already using the latest available version of R, 2.8.1. I'm using Windows XP Professional.
Thanks for any help, Megan Davies Megan Davies Policy and Advice Officer, Statistician Scottish Natural Heritage 01463 725072
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