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lme4 binary for OSX

4 messages · Federico Calboli, ONKELINX, Thierry, Ben Bolker

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Dear All,

I tried to use the package manager in the GUI to connect to http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos, but I get:

Warning: unable to access index for repository http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0

I noticed that there is a binary here:

http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/3.0/

(i.e. the GUI package manager is not resolving the right address I presume).

Hence I have two questions.  Does the R-forge lme4 page need a tweak?  Is that binary the latest and greatest, safe to use with R 3.0.0 on a 64-bit mac running OS 10.8.3?

Best wishes

F

PS I CC'd Simon and Hans-J?rg in case the problem is not on the r-forge page but on how the GUI resolves the address.
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Dear Federico,

It seems that R-forge isn't yet updated to R 3.0.0. Hence the packages are not available for R 3.0.0

Best regards,

Thierry

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Onderwerp: [R-sig-ME] lme4 binary for OSX

Dear All,

I tried to use the package manager in the GUI to connect to http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos, but I get:

Warning: unable to access index for repository http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0

I noticed that there is a binary here:

http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/3.0/

(i.e. the GUI package manager is not resolving the right address I presume).

Hence I have two questions.  Does the R-forge lme4 page need a tweak?  Is that binary the latest and greatest, safe to use with R 3.0.0 on a 64-bit mac running OS 10.8.3?

Best wishes

F

PS I CC'd Simon and Hans-J?rg in case the problem is not on the r-forge page but on how the GUI resolves the address.

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Dear Thierry,

thank you for letting me know.  I though this link

http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/3.0/

on the lme4 page meant it was, but that's not the case then.

BW

F
On 9 Apr 2013, at 13:21, "ONKELINX, Thierry" <Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be> wrote:

            
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Federico Calboli <f.calboli at ...> writes:
lme4 status report, R-3.0.0 related:

** STABLE version (lme4 on CRAN, lme4.0 on r-forge)

The MacOS binary build (only) on CRAN was missing because of some
failed (relatively obscure) tests -- problem still not diagnosed, but
for now I have commented these tests out.  I've updated lme4.0 on
r-forge (it's still building, see status at
<http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=60>) and have submitted the
updated version _as lme4_ to CRAN: if all goes well that should
propagate shortly (but not yet checked by the powers-that-be, so
there could still be some glitches to resolve)

I don't know if lme4.0-on-r-forge will be available for 3.0.0
or not once it successfully builds.

** DEVELOPMENT version (lme4 on github, and at lme4.r-forge repository)

BINARIES

I have added a recent MacOS binary at
http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/ .
This appears to be the correct path (install.packages(...) worked for
me on MacOS/R-3.0.0). I am still trying to sort the repository tree
out properly: the path above works, but 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#
Setting-up-a-package-repository (broken URL!) suggests that MacOS
binaries should be "located at bin/macosx/snowleopard/contrib/3.y for
R versions 3.y.z" ... so I have added a copy there as well.

SOURCE

Still available on github for those with compile tools and devtools
package installed:

library("devtools")
install_github("lme4",user="lme4")