On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Giovanni Azua <brave...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thank you for your feedback, after lot of trial and error the problem is > finally solved. > > To solve this problem, I tried in this order: > > 1) uninstalling the two packages "Matrix" and "lme4" and reinstalling them. > 2) uninstalling doBy and reinstalling it with and without 1) > 3) upgrading to the latest R version and re-doing 1) 2) > > And finally 4) wiped all R traces from my Mac OS X 10.7.2 and re-installed > the latest version. The latest Matrix version seems to have changed in the > meanwhile so I was lucky and now it works. > > It seems to me that the whole concept of dependency analysis for installing > packages in R is broken ... seems like the packages depend only on the > package name and not on the specific versions which is wrong as in this case, > chances are that a user will say in this "live lock" where will never find a > "happy together" versions of Matrix and lme4 ... but well, you statisticians > know better about chances :P >
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