White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC wrote: > I'll address two issues. The first is today's error message and the other is > change management for contributed packages on CRAN. > > TODAY'S ERROR MESSAGE > > I switched from the 0.995-1 versions of lme4 and Matrix to those referenced > in the subject line this afternoon. Prior to using these packages on anything > else, I applied them to code that 'worked' (provided numerical results with > no error messages) under the previous set of packages. Since I can't provide > the data, I realize this post may be of limited usefulness. Rightly or > wrongly, I've regressed my R installation back to the 0.995-1 versions of > lme4/Matrix... so I don't think that I continue to have a problem. > > R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, i386-pc-mingw32 > > attached base packages: > [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" > [7] "base" > > other attached packages: > lme4 lattice Matrix > "0.995-2" "0.12-11" "0.995-4" > > >>options(show.signif.stars=FALSE) >>m1a<-lmer(cbind(prevented,control.count)~repellant+hour+(1|volunteer)+(1|date), > > + family=binomial(link='probit'), method='Laplace') > Error in dev.resids(y, mu, weights) : argument wt must be a numeric vector of > length 1 or length 219 > >># probit doesn't converge >>m1b<-lmer(cbind(prevented,control.count)~repellant+hour+(1|volunteer)+(1|date), > > + family=binomial, method='Laplace') > Error in dev.resids(y, mu, weights) : argument wt must be a numeric vector of > length 1 or length 219 > >># logit is overdispersed >>m1<-lmer(cbind(prevented,control.count)~repellant+hour+(1|volunteer)+(1|date), > > + family=quasibinomial, method='Laplace') > Error in glm.fit(X, Y, weights = weights, offset = offset, family = family, > : > NAs in V(mu) > >>m2<-lmer(cbind(prevented,control.count)~hour+(1|volunteer)+(1|date), > > + family=quasibinomial, method='Laplace') > Error in glm.fit(X, Y, weights = weights, offset = offset, family = family, > : > NAs in V(mu) > > CHANGE MANAGEMENT > > Does CRAN keep old versions of contributed packages someplace? If not, the > strategy I've implemented today is to maintain my own repository of > contributed packages that I use. Stuff happens and change management is good.
Yes, old packages are in CRAN/src/contrib/Archive/ You have to compile them from source yourself, though. Uwe Ligges > Chuck > > Charles E. White, Senior Biostatistician, MS > Walter Reed Army Institute of Research > 503 Robert Grant Ave., Room 1w102 > Silver Spring, MD 20910-1557 > 301 319-9781 > Personal/Professional Site: > http://users.starpower.net/cwhite571/professional/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html