R help - Jul 2010 - lme4 on Mac OS X

I have been trying to get the lme4 package installed on Mac OS X... with no
success.  The Mac OS binary is not available on any CRAN, and I also can¹t
install the package from old source.  Has anyone found a solution to this
problem?  I am happy to use nlme for now, but I tend to prefer to do my
mixed model analyses with lmer().

Thanks,
Nicholas Griffin
Center for Genome Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine


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On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Nicholas Griffin wrote:
> I have been trying to get the lme4 package installed on Mac OS X...  
> with no
> success.  The Mac OS binary is not available on any CRAN, and I also  
> can?t
> install the package from old source.  Has anyone found a solution to  
> this
> problem?  I am happy to use nlme for now, but I tend to prefer to do  
> my
> mixed model analyses with lmer().
I believe this has been addressed several times recently. The new  
settings for RSiteSearch no longer search the r-help listings but you  
can use it to get to Baron's repository and then change the parameters:

http://search.r-project.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=mac+lme4&max=20&result=normal&sort=score&idxname=Rhelp10

I have fixed my perception of this design deficiency by creating a new  
search function in my .Rprofile:

  rhelpSearch <-
function(string,
                   restrict = c("Rhelp10", "Rhelp08",
"Rhelp02",
"functions" ),
                   matchesPerPage = 100, ...)
          RSiteSearch(string=string,  restrict = restrict,   
matchesPerPage = matchesPerPage, ...)


David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT