[Rd] error in lme4 for R 2.4.0 (PR#9297)

[Douglas Bates]

On 10/14/06, din.chen at sdstate.edu <din.chen at sdstate.edu> wrote:
> Full_Name: Din Chen
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (66.17.122.18)
>
>
> I just updated the R.2.4.0. and got the error message for random effect
> modelling, which was working on R.2.3.1.
>
> library(lme4)
> mmod <- lmer(bright ~ 1+(1|operator), pulp)
> summary(mmod)
>
> Then when I tried to extract the residuals and random effect using:
> resid(mmodr)
> ranef(mmodr)
>
> I got error message:
>
> Error in resid(mmod) : no slot of name "family" for this object of class "lmer"

Insufficient testing by the author.  I need to modify the resid
methods for the new class definitions.  I'll upload lme4_0.9975-6 with
a fix for this later today.

The ranef method does work ok, I believe.