[R] anova(mylme, type = ??)

[Douglas Bates]

John Christie <jc at or.psychology.dal.ca> writes:

> OK, I found pretty much everything I needed in the short term on lme.
> However, I cannot find anything on the "type" flag in the anova
> command.  When is it used and what for?  In the examples I have found
> type="marginal" is usually entered for lme models with fixed effects.
> 
> 
> This is one of the few items that I have done an entire R site search
> for without anything but other examples of this question - unanswered.
> 
> 
> It is odd that there is no documentation for a value you can pass to
> one of the commands.

Umm - there is documentation for type.  Check

?anova.lme