[R] problem with weights on lmer function

[Andrew Robinson]

Hi Ronaldo,

I suggest that you send us a small, well-documented, code example that
we can reproduce.  It certainly looks as though there is a problem,
but given this information it's hard to know what it is!

Cheers

Andrew

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:22:03PM -0200, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to make a model using lmer, but the weigths is not accept.
> 
> m1<-lmer(ocup/total~tempo+(tempo|estacao),family=binomial,weights=total)
> 
> Erro em lmer(ocup/total ~ tempo + (tempo | estacao), family = binomial,  : 
> 	object `weights' of incorrect type
> 
> I dont understand why this error, with glm this work. the total object is a 
> vector.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
> Ronaldo
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