When i ran the example given in the help of the software R and I
obtained the same error: > library(lme4)Loading required package:
MatrixLoading required package: lattice Attaching package:
?Matrix? The following object(s) are masked from
?package:base?: det Attaching package: ?lme4? The
following object(s) are masked from ?package:stats?: AIC, BIC
?lmerstarting httpd help server ... done > (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~
Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy))Error in as(ff, "sparseMatrix") :
unused argument(s) ("sparseMatrix") > sessionInfo()R version 2.14.2
(2012-02-29)Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale:[1]
LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 [3]
LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5]
LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 attached base packages:[1] stats
graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached
packages:[1] lme4_0.999375-42 Matrix_1.0-4 lattice_0.20-0 loaded via
a namespace (and not attached):[1] grid_2.14.2 nlme_3.1-103
stats4_2.14.2 tools_2.14.2