[R] summary.nlme

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> What's going on?

Namespaces. See `Writing R Extensions'.

?getS3method
?getAnywhere

will show these to you.

It is probably easier to read the source code for the package, though.

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Simon.Bond wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to work out how the nlme function estimates the variances of
> the fixed effects parameters, so I tried to look at the code for these
> functions: summary.nlme, summary.lme, MEestimate.
> 
> > MEestimate
> Error: Object "MEestimate" not found
> > summary.nlme
> Error: Object "summary.nlme" not found
> > summary.lme
> Error: Object "summary.lme" not found
> 
> So R says they don't exist, although summary(AnNlmeObject) works fine.

It does not.  It says they are not found, which is true.

> What's going on?

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