lmList error in lme4a

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:24 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David A Springate
<david.springate at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

Thanks, Ben

I re-installed lme4a from scratch and it works fine now!

BTW if I do require(lme4a), I still see lme4 "loaded via a namespace" in
sessionInfo(), even if I start with R --vanilla

Must be coming from another package as lme4a does not load lme4.

It does seem to on my machine... Is this likely to be a problem?

$ R --vanilla

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sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
?[3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
?[5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
?[7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods
base

library(lme4a)

Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice

Attaching package: 'Matrix'

The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':

? ?det

Loading required package: minqa
Loading required package: Rcpp
Loading required package: MatrixModels

Attaching package: 'lme4a'

The following object(s) are masked from 'package:stats':

? ?AIC, BIC

sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
?[3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
?[5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
?[7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods
base

other attached packages:
[1] lme4a_0.999375-65 ?MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
Rcpp_0.9.4.2
[5] Matrix_0.999375-50 lattice_0.19-23

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] codetools_0.2-8 ?grid_2.13.0 ? ? ?lme4_0.999375-39 nlme_3.1-100
[5] splines_2.13.0 ? stats4_2.13.0

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:11 -0400, Ben Bolker wrote:

On 06/09/2011 05:35 AM, David A Springate wrote:

Dear all,

I am trying to use the lmList function from lme4a, but I get the
following error even with the example sleepstudy dataset:

require(lme4a)
lmList(Reaction ~ Days | Subject, sleepstudy)

Call: lmList(formula = Reaction ~ Days | Subject, data = sleepstudy)
Coefficients:
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
? invalid type of argument[1]: 'language'

? It works for me ... ?I would try starting from a clean session,
especially making sure that you have *not* tried to load lme4 previously
(I see you have it "loaded via a namespace" below).
(Hmmm, I just tried loading and then detaching lme4 to get the same
"loaded via namespace" effect, and it didn't break for me.)

? Ben Bolker

sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
?[3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
?[5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
?[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base

other attached packages:
[1] lme4a_0.999375-67 ?MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
Rcpp_0.9.4.1
[5] Matrix_0.999375-50 lattice_0.19-26

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] codetools_0.2-8 grid_2.13.0 ? ? nlme_3.1-101 ? ?splines_2.13.0
[5] tools_2.13.0

Am I missing something or is this a bug?

Thanks,

David

sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
?[3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
?[5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
?[7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods
[7] base

other attached packages:
[1] lme4a_0.999375-67 ?MatrixModels_0.2-1 minqa_1.1.15
[4] Rcpp_0.9.4.2 ? ? ? Matrix_0.999375-50 lattice_0.19-23

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] codetools_0.2-8 ?grid_2.13.0 ? ? ?lme4_0.999375-39
[4] nlme_3.1-100 ? ? splines_2.13.0 ? stats4_2.13.0
[7] tcltk_2.13.0 ? ? tools_2.13.0

str(sleepstudy)

'data.frame': ? 180 obs. of ?3 variables:
?$ Reaction: num ?250 259 251 321 357 ...
?$ Days ? ?: num ?0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
?$ Subject : Factor w/ 18 levels "308","309","310",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 ..