[R] Latest revision of lme4 requires 'Matrix' >= 0.995.2 but that version is not available on CRAN

[Søren Højsgaard]

I see that Matrix, lme4 and SASmixed in zip format have been 'rolled back' to the previous versions - which I have now installed. Running 
 
library(SASmixed)
data(Demand)
example(Demand)
 
gives
....
 
Demand> fm1Demand <- lmer(log(d) ~ log(y) + log(rd) + log(rt) + 
    log(rs) + (1 | State) + (1 | Year), Demand)
Error: object "d" not found
Error in log(d) : unable to find the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'log'

- so it is not a complete 'roll back' - unless I've misunderstood something? Help will be appreciated...
 
/ Søren

 

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Yes, but implementing this would require an even higher computational
effort to build and check Windows binary packages.

Since it looks like the Matrix problems are persisting, I will play back
the "old" versions of both packages to CRAN shortly.

Uwe



> Anyway, that sort of things happen... I've now downloaded the
> previous version of lme4 as a tar.gz file - and that works. I wonder
> if it would be an idea to have a function rollback('pkg-name') for
> that sort of situations???
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> Best regards
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> Søren Højsgaard
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> Moreover, now that I have updated to the latest release of lme4, I
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