John,

Thanks for your reply!  I will check again I must have missed it!

~Nicole Ford
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Assistant/ Instructor
Department of Government and International Affairs
University of South Florida
office: SOC 012M
e: nmhicks@mail.usf.edu
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On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:54 PM, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Dear Nicole,
> 
> Thanks to Sandy Weisberg, who is a coauthor of the package, the effects
> package has methods for objects produced by lme() in the nlme package and
> lmer() and glmer() in the lme4 package, to plot the fixed effects. See
> ?effect.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> John
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Ford
>> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 7:27 PM
>> To: r-help-r-project.org help
>> Subject: [R] lmer effects-type plot?
>> 
>> hello, all.
>> 
>> while i have a mcmc running, i am looking at the frequestist method of
>> my model.  i have never done HLM so i am looking for ways to plot them
>> that might yeild something useful like dr. fox's effects plot package.
>> this is my model, where dem is democracy ranked continuous 1:10, trsut
>> is a 3 level categorical variable, cpi is 1:10, etc...
>> 
>>> hier.jags2.mod <- lmer(dem ~ trust*cpi + age + gender + educ + income
>> + (1 + trust | country), data=wvsAB)
>> 
>> i have tried the following:
>> 
>>> tmp <- as.data.frame(confint(glht(.hier.jags2.mod))$confint)
>>> tmp$Comparison <- rownames(tmp)
>>> q<-(ggplot(tmp, aes(x = Comparison, y = Estimate, ymin = lwr, ymax =
>> upr,  srt = 45)) + geom_errorbar() + geom_point())
>>> q + theme(axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=-45))
>> 
>> as well as some function using xyplot to little avail, as well as a few
>> others i happened upon online...
>> 
>> any suggestions of packages/ sample code would be helpful.
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