I have the same problem, in Windows, and I think
the .Rdata is not corrupted. Load R without loading
the.Rdata file - move or rename it. Then library(lme4)
and load the .Rdata - it should work.
cheers,
Horacio
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Horacio Montenegro
PhD Student in Genetics and Molecular Biology
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
phone: +55 19 3788 1151
--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
It did not `break R': just rename your .RData which appears to have become corrupted. Please always start R with --vanilla before concluding it is broken. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg Arnold wrote:
This combination was operating satisfactorily
until I tried updating lme4 and
Matrix. My attempts to do this ultimately broke
R. The R console appears
briefly, then collapses. I have tried
downloading and reinstalling R
without success. Typing 'R' into Terminal gives
the error message bring up
the usual introduction, then the error message:
Error in methods:::mlistMetaName(mi, ns) :
The methods object name for "coerce" must
include the name of the
package that contains the generic function, but
there is no generic function
of this name Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in
.RData -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595