[R] getting parts returned by lmer

[John Sorkin]

R 2.10.0
windows XP

I am trying to get the coefficients returned from lmer. Normally I would use the names function to get the objects returned by the function. This does not work in lmer, but it does for lm:

 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1|Subject) + (0+Days|Subject), sleepstudy)
> names(fm2)
NULL

> fitlm <- lm(Reaction ~ Days, sleepstudy)
> names(fitlm)
 [1] "coefficients"  "residuals"     "effects"       "rank"         
 [5] "fitted.values" "assign"        "qr"            "df.residual"  
 [9] "xlevels"       "call"          "terms"         "model" 

How does one know what is returned by lmer, and how does one access the various parts? I looked at the code for lmer, but at least on my level of R sophistication, the nature of the data returned in not clear.

Thanks,
John


John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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