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Trying to install package for LMER, getting a ton of errors

3 messages · David Kremelberg, Pascal Oettli, Steve Lianoglou

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Hello,

I am wondering why you are trying to install from source on your
Windows machine. Is there any reason for you to not use Windows
binaries?

Regards,
Pascal
On 4 February 2014 15:12, David Kremelberg <david.kremelberg at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:12 PM, David Kremelberg
<david.kremelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
You might try not specifying `type="source"` side-step this issue. I
don't run windows, but I believe that unless you've done something
"special," then R should default to installing binary versions of
these packages, so the compilation problems you are having would go
away.

If I had to guess at what's causing the problems you are having
compiling these packages, it'd be that you don't have a sane build
environment set up on your windows machine.

Since the packages you are installing require C/C++ compilation, you
might need extra care here (ie. you need the correct version of GCC
installed).

It looks like your first points of reference should be here:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset

HTH,

-steve