[R] Error message glmer using R: “ 'what' must be a character string or a function”

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:36 PM, EmmaB wrote:

> I am running a multi-level model. I use the following commands with
> validatedRS6 as the outcome, random as the predictor and clustno as the
> random effects variable.
> 
> new<-as.data.frame(read.delim("BABEX.dat", header=TRUE))
> install.packages("lme4")
> library(lme4)
> model1<- glmer(validatedRS6 ~ random + (1|clustno), data=new,
> family=binomial("logit"), nAGQ)
> 
> However, I get the following error
> 
> Error in do.call(new, c(list(Class = "glmResp", family = family),
> ll[setdiff(names(ll), : 'what' must be a character string or a function
> 
> I have absolutely no idea what has gone wrong and have searched the
> internet. I am sorry but I cannot provide the data as it is from an
> intervention which has yet to be published.

You at least need to post the output of str(new).


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David Winsemius
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