[R] lme4 package: Fitted values and residuals

[Joel Dubin]

Thank you, Martin, for pointing this out (not to mention the missing 
sessionInfo() piece).  Indeed the resid() call works as expected with 
the most recent update of lme4.

Cheers, Joel.


Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Dubin <jdubin at uwaterloo.ca>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:19:16 -0500 writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>     Joel> Hello, Indeed, implementing the fitted and resid calls
>     Joel> on the fm1 object from example(lmer), the fitted
>     Joel> function worked, but the resid did not:
>
>     >> resid(fm1)
>     Joel> Error in resid(fm1) : no slot of name "family" for
>     Joel> this object of class "lmer"
>
>     Joel> I am using R 2.4.0 (on Windows XP), with the update of
>     Joel> lme4 (lmer within) written for 2.4.0.
>
> I think you should update lme4 [ update.packages(.....) ],
> since the above looks suspiciously like a bug that had been
> fixed not so long ago.
>
> IIRC, the posting guide asks you to provide  sessionInfo() 
> in such situations.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>