The sentence `There is no default method for this function.' should be excluded from deviance.Rd, which documents deviance.default, amongst others. Alec Stephenson tel +44 (0) 1524 593950 Department of Mathematics and Statistics fax +44 (0) 1524 592681 Lancaster University a.stephenson@lancaster.ac.uk Lancaster LA1 4YF http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~stephena/