On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Alan Kelly wrote:
> Martin, my experience may only add to the confusion. When I upgraded to 2.11
> on
> my office Mac I had a similar problem when loading lme4 from CRAN. However, I
> found the package on R-forge and successfully installed it. On trying the same
> procedure on my home Mac running 2.11.1, this approach fails with the
> following
> error (this differs from yours):
>> library(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, ...) :
> unable to load shared library
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so':
>
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so,
> 6): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib
> Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/lme4/libs/i386/lme4.so
> Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lme4'
>
The Rforge is not mapping libgfortran correctly hence the error. You can work
around that by installing gfortran from CRAN - but please read on instead.
> And you will not be able to load "arm" as this depends on "lme4".
I have created extra "untested" repository for this, you can now install lme4
(CRAN version but ignoring check failures) using
install.packages("lme4",,"http://r.research.att.com/",type='mac.binary.untested')
Cheers,
Simon
> Frustrating....
> Regards,
> Alan
>
> Alan Kelly
> Trinity College Dublin
>
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