R help - Jan 2006 - Latest revision of lme4 requires 'Matrix' >= 0.995.2 but that version is not available on CRAN

I just updated the packages on my pc (windows xp). When loading lme4 I get
 
 > library(lme4)
Error: package 'Matrix' 0.995-1 was found, but >= 0.995.2 is required
by 'lme4'

'Matrix'  0.995-1 is indeed installed on my computer, but
update.packages() does not capture a never version; and seemingly for good
reasons: When looking at CRAN, the new version of Matrix is available - but only
as a .tar.gz archive. Two questions
 
1) How can a new version of lme4 make its way to CRAN when the packages it
depends on are not available (that is, in a zip-version)?
 
An answer could be: Buhh, you can just download the .tar.gz archive and then
compile it yourself! Surely, that would be possible, but it can not be the
intention...
 
2) When actually trying to compile Matrix, I get
 
lmer.o(.text+0x285f):lmer.c: undefined reference to `atanh'
make[3]: *** [Matrix.dll] Error 1
make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-Matrix] Error 2
*** Installation of Matrix failed ***
Removing 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
Restoring previous 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
 
Can anyone help me on what to do???
Thanks / S??ren

S??ren H??jsgaard <Soren.Hojsgaard at agrsci.dk> writes:
> I just updated the packages on my pc (windows xp). When loading lme4 I get
>  
>  > library(lme4)
> Error: package 'Matrix' 0.995-1 was found, but >= 0.995.2 is
required by 'lme4'
> 
> 'Matrix'  0.995-1 is indeed installed on my computer, but
> update.packages() does not capture a never version; and seemingly
> for good reasons: When looking at CRAN, the new version of Matrix is
> available - but only as a .tar.gz archive. 
Oh s.....
>Two questions
>  
> 1) How can a new version of lme4 make its way to CRAN when the packages it
depends on are not available (that is, in a zip-version)?
Looks like a buglet in Uwe's scripts. He has a check error on Matrix
0.995-2, but presumably it was actually built and loaded by lme4
0.995-2...

And of course the previous version of lme4 goes into the bit bucket
immediately. 

lme4 0.995-1 file still exists on the DK mirror. I've put a copy for
you in the usual place, just in case.


  
> An answer could be: Buhh, you can just download the .tar.gz archive and
then compile it yourself! Surely, that would be possible, but it can not be the
intention...
>  
> 2) When actually trying to compile Matrix, I get
>  
> lmer.o(.text+0x285f):lmer.c: undefined reference to `atanh'
> make[3]: *** [Matrix.dll] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-Matrix] Error 2
> *** Installation of Matrix failed ***
> Removing 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
> Restoring previous 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
>  
> Can anyone help me on what to do???
This is not the same error that Uwe had (that was a clean compile but
error in the check phase), so upgrading to the latest version of the
build tools could be required.

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I've just hit this problem as well and as I am slumming it on XP at the
moment, I don't have the compilation tools to use the .tar.gz version.

I also notice that the numbering format has changed.  Is this intentional?

Best wishes

John

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, S??ren H??jsgaard wrote:
> I just updated the packages on my pc (windows xp). When loading lme4 I get
>  
>  > library(lme4)
> Error: package 'Matrix' 0.995-1 was found, but >= 0.995.2 is
required by 'lme4'
> 
> 'Matrix'  0.995-1 is indeed installed on my computer, but
update.packages() does not capture a never version; and seemingly for good
reasons: When looking at CRAN, the new version of Matrix is available - but only
as a .tar.gz archive. Two questions
>  
> 1) How can a new version of lme4 make its way to CRAN when the packages it
depends on are not available (that is, in a zip-version)?
>  
> An answer could be: Buhh, you can just download the .tar.gz archive and
then compile it yourself! Surely, that would be possible, but it can not be the
intention...
>  
> 2) When actually trying to compile Matrix, I get
>  
> lmer.o(.text+0x285f):lmer.c: undefined reference to `atanh'
> make[3]: *** [Matrix.dll] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-Matrix] Error 2
> *** Installation of Matrix failed ***
> Removing 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
> Restoring previous 'c:/programs/R/current/library/Matrix'
>  
> Can anyone help me on what to do???
> Thanks / S??ren
> 
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