Trouble getting development version of lme4

Ross Boylan <ross at ...> writes:

Running on Windows 7, R 2.15.2, I have been unable to get the
development version of lme4 working.  I'd appreciate any assistance.

Following the instructions at http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/

  1.

     install.packages("lme4",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")
     Installing package(s) into

'c:/Users/rdboylan/Documents/R/R-2.15.2/site-library'

     (as 'lib' is unspecified)
     Warning message:
     package 'lme4' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

  2.

     install.packages("lme4",repos="http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos")

  [snip]

     Warning: dependencies 'minqa', 'Rcpp', 'RcppEigen' are not available

        There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the
        source version is later:
                  binary        source
     lme4 0.999902344-0 0.999902345-0

     Warning: dependencies 'minqa', 'Rcpp', 'RcppEigen' are not available

  [snip]

     Content type 'application/zip' length 2027695 bytes (1.9 Mb)
     opened URL
     downloaded 1.9 Mb

     package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
     Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package 'lme4
## I had installed the one from CRAN, but detached and unloaded
it before attempting installation
     # Do I need to manually delete the existing install?

   You shouldn't need to.  Normally this happens when the package
is still loaded while you're trying to install, but ...

  3. Then I tried to get the dependencies listed above from CRAN. This
     mostly worked, but

     package 'minga' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

  4. The end result:

     > library(lme4)

     Error in library(lme4) : there is no package called 'lme4'

     Despite the message in 2, it appears lme4 was mostly removed, but
     there is still a dll there.  I thought detach  unload was supposed
     to take care of that.

My guess is exiting ESS and deleting the installed lme4 files will fix
some of the problems, but it looks as if one required package, minga, is
unavailable.

    Well, the major problem with this is that the package is called
'minqa', not 'minga'.

   I do apologize that things are a bit of a mess right now; we've
been having trouble with the R-forge build because of some version/
dependency problems with Rcpp.

   A couple of general thoughts:

  * development is now happening on github.  If you want to install
the very latest version, and have the tools for compiling for source,
try

install.packages(c("Rcpp","RcppEigen","minqa","devtools"))
library("devtools")
install_github("lme4",user="lme4")

   Do please let us/me know, if you try it, whether that works
and/or whether you encounter problems.

   In general for installing from R-forge but wanting to be
able to get the dependencies from CRAN as well:

  install.packages("lme4",repos=c("http://r-forge.r-project.org",
       getOption("repos")))

   In the very near future we hope to
(1) build some updated binaries and put them up at
http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos

(2) update the installation instructions (we may stop referring
to the automatically built r-forge binaries, since these will
start falling behind the version on github)