I am fitting a series of models using lmer(). I'd like to be able to
manipulate the coefficients generated by ranef() to facilitate comparisons
between models, and I can't figure out how to do it. (This is probably old
news for most of you, but the problem is that although the ranef() output is
in two columns, it's apparently a list. After I'd learned I couldn't use
as.data.frame(ranef(model1)) in R, I was still surprised to see the group ID
and the coefficient appear in a single cell when I used write.table to look
at the output in Excel.) I'd appreciate any ideas as to how I can generate a
list of coefficients without the accompanying group ID numbers.

Jamie

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