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lme4a?

7 messages · Greg Lee, Gabor Grothendieck, Ben Bolker

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I am attempting to following along with Douglas Bates book draft.

R Forge claims that the following works automatically:

install.packages("lme4a", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

but I get

? package ?lme4a? is not available.

Attempting to obtain the source manually from the lme4 project page
(which points to):

http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/lme4a_0.999375-46.tar.gz

produces page not found.

I presume this means something is broken? Or is the expectation that
we fetch from SVN?

Regards,
Greg
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

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

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
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I'm not sure, but I got it via SVN.  I don't see lme4a exposed
anywhere on r-forge.

  As the web page suggests

svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/lme4
[move to appropriate directory]
cd pkg
R CMD INSTALL lme4a

[you'll need to have all the appropriate build tools installed]

 HOWEVER: lme4a is under EXTREMELY rapid (=unstable) development, and
the current version is broken on my system -- I think (???) that there's
a "mer.h" file that's supposed to have been added but didn't get in.

  The current version on SVN is r685; I had to back up to r679 to get a
working version.

  r680 log says "Removing definitions no longer used" -- perhaps
something extra got removed?

 (I have mucked around with things a bit, so there's an outside chance
that this is my fault -- can anyone else confirm?)
glee wrote:

  
    
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I was able to use install.packages to install version 652 (the current
version at the time) of lme4a on my Vista system.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
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My apologies.  It was my fault (doh!)
  however, "under rapid development" is still true -- glmer appears to
be working now, but that's recent.
Ben Bolker wrote:

  
    
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I am behind a university firewall which (apparently) has port 3690
(svn:// default) blocked.

The nightly snapshot (linked from
http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=60) downloads ok, and
appears to build, but fails with

Error : package 'Matrix' 0.999375-37 was found, but >= 0.999375.38 is
required by 'lme4a'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?lme4a?

As far as I can see 0.999375-37 is the latest version available on CRAN.

Thanks for the suggestions. At least this path appears that it could
work, if I am able to satisfy dependencies. I will keep trying.
On 4 March 2010 11:43, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
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how about

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

?
(not sure, but worth a try)

  Ben
glee wrote:

  
    
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Yes, that works. thanks!
On 4 March 2010 12:49, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote: