Simon's solution worked perfectly. Many thanks for assistance Simon. Alan Dr. Alan Kelly Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics Director of the Small Area Health Research Unit (SAHRU) Department of Public Health & Primary Care Trinity College Centre for Health Sciences Adelaide & Meath Hospital Tallaght Dublin 24
Quoting Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>: > > 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 > > > > Quoting r-sig-mac-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch: > > > >> Send R-SIG-Mac mailing list submissions to > >> r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > >> > >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > >> r-sig-mac-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch > >> > >> You can reach the person managing the list at > >> r-sig-mac-ow...@stat.math.ethz.ch > >> > >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >> than "Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest..." > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > > > > -- _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac