[R] lme4 install error

Shravan Vasishth
2006-11-05T20:51:03Z

Dear all,

I'm trying to install lme4 (after having installed R 2.4.0 from source, and
having installed the latest Matrix package). lme4 fails with the following
message:

pedigree.o definition of _lme4_xSym in section (__DATA,__common)
pedigree.o definition of _lme4_ySym in section (__DATA,__common)
make: *** [lme4.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'lme4'
** Removing
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/lme4'

Others have apparently also had this problem, but their error message
appeared to signal a missing or unfindable Matrix header file. This does not
seem to be the case here. What is likely to be the problem? This install is
on a Mac OS 10.3.9. I've done R upgrades many times before; this is the
first time I''ve had a problem.

The full error message for lme4 can be seen at:

http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/screen.txt

One other unusual thing was that there were many warning messages during the
Matrix install.

...
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :

	 in the method signature for function "coerce" no definition for
class: "matrix.csr"
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
	 in the method signature for function "coerce" no definition for
class: "matrix.csr"
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
	 in the method signature for function "coerce" no definition for
class: "matrix.csc"
...

I have put the entire history of that install here:
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/screen2.txt


Thanks,

--
Shravan Vasishth,    Empirical Methods in Syntax
Juniorprofessor, Institute for Linguistics, Potsdam
Tel: +49-(0)331-977-2016, -2457  Fax: -2087
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth

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