Arguably you are looking in the wrong place (there's a special mixed-models
mailing list for R), but I can answer the question.

No.

At least, there's nothing in lme4, and I haven't done anything (since I
want a more general solution than Stata and MLWiN implement) and I'd be
surprised if someone else had done it.

   -thomas


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Richard Blissett <rsl.bliss@gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps I am not looking in the right place, but I am looking for a way to
> use lmer() to run a multilevel model that incorporates sampling weights. I
> have used the Lumley survey package to use sampling weights in the past,
> but according to post I found online from Thomas Lumley in mid-2012, R is
> currently not equipped to be able to do this.
>
> His post is here:
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/sampling-weights-for-multilevel-models-tp4632947p4632955.html
>
> Does anyone know if there has been an update since then to be able to do
> this, or if there's another way to go about doing this in R? Otherwise, I
> am thinking that I will have to move my data over to Stata and try to run
> the multilevel models there.
>
> Richard
>
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