On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This is something you need to take up with the geepack maintainer (who is > also the doBy maintainer). I find his misuse of Depends ridiculous: we have > Suggests and Enhances for such loose dependencies. > > You can easily get snow, as a source or a binary package. > > Did you update your packages? Several packages which came with 2.13.2 have > updates available: one is Matrix. >
Matrix fails check, that's why it's not available: http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/Matrix-00check.html It seems like a silly reason to fail, but still, it explains .. Cheers, Simon > lme4 is tied to a specific version of Matrix, and the Mac binary package > repository for 2.13.2 has versions of Matrix (0.999375-50) and lme4 > (0.999375-40) which do not work together for me. But the current Matrix is > 1.0-1 and current lme4 is 0.999375-42. So AFAIK the only option is to install > these packages from their sources. > > Simon: the binary repository on the CRAN master for 2.14.0 has not be updated > for 4 weeks and is rather incomplete, and clearly the 2.13.2 area needs some > updates. With 2.14.0 less than a week away, this is getting urgent. > > Brian > > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Kathryn Lan wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a new R-user. I have a Mac OS.X 10.6.8. I have downloaded R version >> 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) onto my computer and been able to use basic stats >> function. Now I want to use the geepack package and when I try to load it >> using library(geepack), it says I have to load these dependencies. >> Apparently, some of these packages successfully loaded but some were not >> (doBy and lme4). The doBy needs the snow package which R says I don't have, >> and I don't also have lme4 package. I'm wondering why there's so much >> trouble trying to load this geepack. What is the primary problem behind >> this? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> >> >> >>> library(geepack) >> Loading required package: doBy >> Loading required package: survival >> Loading required package: splines >> Loading required package: R2HTML >> Loading required package: multcomp >> Loading required package: mvtnorm >> Loading required package: lme4 >> Loading required package: Matrix >> Loading required package: lattice >> >> Attaching package: 'Matrix' >> >> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base': >> >> det >> >> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : >> function 'cholmod_l_start' not provided by package 'Matrix' >> Error: package 'lme4' could not be loaded >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac