[R] How to extract overall effect in from glmer object?

[Ben Bolker]

friszuur <friszuur <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I am using glmer() from the lme4-package to run generalized linear mixed
> models. 
> 
> Is there a way to extract the overall variable effects from the model output
> object? For example, for linear models using lm() I use the anova() function
> to extract these results, however this is not possible for glmer().


  This would probably be better on r-sig-mixed-models <at> r-project.org

  I think ?drop1 is probably what you're looking for. 

  Ben Bolker