Søren Højsgaard wrote: > We (Doug, Martin and I) are trying hard to debug an error in Matrix. > Martin and Doug have ideas for a bugfix and I am checking right now. > > The latest version of Matrix that passed the checks was > Matrix_0.995-1 which is still available from > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/last/ > > The error was also present in Matrix_0.995-1, but in that case (and > by chance) it did not cause a crash during the examples or tests > (what happens for Matrix_0.995-2 under Windows). > > Uwe Ligges > > > ---- > > > Dear Uwe, > > Thats fine, but what puzzles me is that a new lme4-version can go on > CRAN when it can not run under windows... ?
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??? > > Best regards > > Søren Højsgaard > > > > > > Moreover, now that I have updated to the latest release of lme4, I > wonder how to get get a version of lme4 that actually works with the > version of Matrix which is currently available. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ 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