Message-ID: <CABghstS00hDS_UTj6pyfHnDsZZu_jyJxKWtLed9uzVvrvezO7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2014-08-20T19:28:17Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: [Lme4-authors] installing 1.1-7
In-Reply-To: <814C875B0EFFDF48A761B449E5EF9C9407FA3483@EX2010-MBX2.ds.strath.ac.uk>
[taking the liberty of cc'ing this to r-sig-mixed-models]
Have you tried
install.packages("optextras",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org",type="source")
?
(this may require you to go further down the rabbit hole and install
compilation tools, see the R FAQ for your operating system ...)
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Kumiko Fukumura <
kumiko.fukumura at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply. I've just used the following:
>
>
>
> > install.packages("lme4",
> + repos=c("http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos",
> + getOption("repos")[["CRAN"]]))
>
>
>
> And the programme seems to be working, though I'm not entirely sure if
> this is the 1.1-7 (it says "lme4" but not "lme.1.1.-7").
>
packageVersion("lme4") should tell you what you have (or sessionInfo())
>
>
>
> Also, having separately installed "optimx", I still cannot use the
> optimiser, and got a message that I now need to install "optextras". So I
> tried the folllwing:
>
>
Can you be a little bit more specific about what you're trying to do?
For basic use of lme4 you shouldn't need optimx ...
>
> install.packages("optextras", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
>
>
> But I got a message that says: "package ?optextras? is available as a
> source package but not as a binary
>
> Warning message: package ?optextras? is not available (for R version
> 3.1.1)"
>
>
>
> Could you perhaps please give me an advice where I could find an
> appropriate "optextras"?
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Kumiko
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ben Bolker [bbolker at gmail.com]
> Sent: 20 August 2014 19:25
> To: Kumiko Fukumura
> Cc: lme4-authors at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Lme4-authors] installing 1.1-7
>
> Copying lme4 into the library folder is probably not the best way to
> install a package.
>
> If you install.packages("lme4"), R should automatically detect and install
> dependencies for you.
>
> It does look like minqa is up to data/available:
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/web/packages/minqa/index.html
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Kumiko Fukumura <
> kumiko.fukumura at strath.ac.uk<mailto:kumiko.fukumura at strath.ac.uk>> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to install lme4.1.1-7. I've been using a very old R (R
> 2.14.1), so I installed a newer version of R (3.1.1).
>
>
>
> Then I downloaded lme4.1.1-7 from https://github.com/lme4/lme4/releases
> and copied it into the library folder in R.
>
>
>
> When I ran "library(lme4)", I get the following error message.
>
>
>
> Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck
> = vI[[j]]) :
> there is no package called ?minqa?
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ?lme4?
>
>
>
> I seem to be missing something critical, but I have no clue. I've also
> tried to use the newer version of lme4 in R 2.15.0, 2.15.1, 2.15.2, but
> have been unsuccessful (it has been hard to find the right version of other
> components).
>
>
>
> It'd be very helpful if you could give me some guidance.
>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
>
> Kumiko
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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