[R-sig-ME] Install flexlambda- and master-lme4 from Github

[Christian Brauner]

Dear Ben,
dear Tobias,

the devtools solution is actually pretty nice:

library(devtools)
dev_mode(, path = "~/your/path/to/new/library/here")

will switch your R repl from

>

to

d>

you can then simply install

install_github("lme4", "lme4", ref = "flexLambda")

which will install into the directory specificied in your dev_mode() call.
Next time you enter R and want to load the flexLambda version of lme4 you
need to pass

dev_mode(, path = ~/your/path/to/new/library/here")

again. If you now use

library(lme4)

it will load the flexLambda package from the specified library path.

Thank you!
Christian

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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:14:07 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
> To: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] Install flexlambda- and master-lme4 from
> 	Github
> Message-ID: <loom.20140724T061222-74 at post.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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> Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner at ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is it possible to install the flexlambda and master branch of lme4 at the
> > same time:
> > 
> > library(devtools)
> > install_github("lme4", "lme4")
> > install_github("lme4", "flexlambda")
> > 
> > such that I can load them as different packages.
> > (Obviously not both at the
> > same time but for example in two different sessions; using "lme4" in one
> > and "flexlambda" in the other)?
> > 
> 
>   
>   devtools::dev_mode() might be useful (I haven't used it),
> or install the packages to different libraries and specify
> `lib.loc` when loading ... or clone the package to your system
> and hack the DESCRIPTION file to create two different packages
> with different names ...
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:43:20 +0200
> From: Tobias Heed <tobias.heed.uhh at gmail.com>
> To: Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
> Cc: "r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org"
> 	<r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] Install flexlambda- and master-lme4 from
> 	Github
> Message-ID: <119A164C-CD59-40B1-996E-C996BFFD044F at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=us-ascii
> 
> Dear Christian,
> 
> I think the package manager packrat (implemented also in the project functionality of the RStudio beta that came out this monday) would enable you to do what you need.
> 
> Best, Tobias 
> 
> 
> 
> > On 24.07.2014, at 06:14, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner at ...> writes:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> is it possible to install the flexlambda and master branch of lme4 at the
> >> same time:
> >> 
> >> library(devtools)
> >> install_github("lme4", "lme4")
> >> install_github("lme4", "flexlambda")
> >> 
> >> such that I can load them as different packages.
> >> (Obviously not both at the
> >> same time but for example in two different sessions; using "lme4" in one
> >> and "flexlambda" in the other)?
> > 
> > 
> >  devtools::dev_mode() might be useful (I haven't used it),
> > or install the packages to different libraries and specify
> > `lib.loc` when loading ... or clone the package to your system
> > and hack the DESCRIPTION file to create two different packages
> > with different names ...
> > 
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> 
> 
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