[R] lme4 and function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package 'Matrix' / Ubuntu

[Esmail]

On 10-Jan-10 12:40, Douglas Bates wrote:
> As Dieter points out, this is likely a mismatch between the versions
> of the lme4 and the Matrix packages, which are very closely linked
> together.  It appears that the version of the lme4 package is too old
> for the version of the Matrix package, which is hard to catch in the
> dependencies (lme4 depends on Matrix but not the other way around).
> As Dieter suggests, it would be best to install the most recent
> version of R which can then pull in the most recent versions of the
> lme4 and Matrix packages.

Hi,

Yes, you were both right on the money. I took your suggestion and
upgraded R to 2.10.1 and I had to install lme4 and zelig from source
to get the current packages.

Thanks again!

Esmail