[R] Modifying Code in .rda based packages (e.g. lme4)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

No standard R package is supplied as a .rda, including not lme4.  You
must be looking at a binary installation, and you would do best to
reinstall from the sources.  You could use

R --vanilla
load("..../all.rda")
fix(GLMM)
save(ls(all=T), file="..../all.rda", compress = TRUE)
q()

but we would not recommend it.  Indeed, we do not recommend your altering
functions in other people's packages.  Why not just make a copy of GLMM
with another name and alter that?


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Dieter Menne wrote:

> assume I want to make a minor local change in a package that is supplied as
> .rda. For example, I want to get rid of the non-verbose-protected
> "Iteration" message in GLMM/lme4.
> 
> Probably I have to load / change / save the package, but could someone help
> me to get the syntax right?

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