Thank you Simon and Prof Brian for your tips. I talked to a friend who uses 2.11 version and the geepack worked fine on her Mac. So I installed the old version and it is now working. I will wait for the new version 2.14 to come out to see if it is better.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > >> [email protected] > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > >> > > > > -- > > Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] > > 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 > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
