males is a factor. If I don't specify that, then it treats it as a numeric.
any other suggestions?


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Pascal Oettli <kridox@ymail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I get a result if I change 'as.factor(males)' to 'males'.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Pascal
>
> On 3 December 2013 18:43, Cynthia Tedore <Cynthia.Tedore@biol.lu.se>
> wrote:
> > I am able to use lmer on an older computer without this error, but the
> new
> > version (downloaded yesterday) gives me this error message:
> >
> > Error in [[<-.data.frame(*tmp*, i, value = integer(0)) : replacement has
> 0
> > rows, data has 117
> >
> > in response to this function:
> >
> >
> model1<-lmer(threatened~as.numeric(focal.chel)+as.numeric(opponent.chel)+(1|as.factor(males)),na.action=na.omit,data=spiders)
> >
> > I would really like to be able to use the newer version, as I've read
> that
> > it has fewer problems with false convergence than older versions. Any
> help
> > anyone can offer as to how to get this to run without the above error
> would
> > be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > My data can be found here:
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16881915/Rfile.txt
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> > Cynthia
> >
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