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problem installing lme4 package with R 2.9.0

3 messages · Robert Seyfarth, Steve Lianoglou, Brian Ripley

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Robert Seyfarth
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When attempting to install the lme4 package I get the following error 
message:
But when I look in the library folder lme4.so is there.

Thanks for any help...
Steve Lianoglou
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Hi Robert,
On May 26, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Robert Seyfarth wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I think this error message is saying that it can't load the  
libgfortran.2.dylib library in:

/usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib

Do you have this file? If not, I believe this library should be  
installed by the full (not the mini) R installer (since it also  
installs gfortran by default), so if you don't have it, try to install  
gfortran from there.

Hope that helps,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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      Brian Ripley
    

    

      
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I think there's a bit more to it than that.  If packages using 
gfortran needed /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib, e.g. package stats 
would not work.  It is linked against

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib 
(compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)

And the version of lme4 I downloaded from CRAN just now is the same. 
It is 0.999375-28, built 2008-04-17 (the latest is 0.999375-31, but 
lme4 fails its tests and so needs to be handled manually).  That's the 
'universal' binary package, picked up by the standard CRAN binary.

So, where did the lme4 package build come from?

        
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote: