[R-sig-ME] glmer != lmer(,..family=binomioal)

[Douglas Bates]

Can you tell us the version of the lme4 package that you are using, please?

On Dec 3, 2007 7:54 AM, Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de> wrote:
> Dear lmers,
>
> from reading the docs and the first lines of lmer() code, I got the
> understanding that the two formulations below should be equivalent. The first
> works as expected, the second gives an envir() error. What's wrong?
>
> Dieter
>
>
> x=data.frame(resp=rbinom(100,1,0.8),
>            treat=sample(letters[7:8],100,TRUE),
>            pat=as.factor(sample(letters[1:4],100,TRUE))
>            )
> glmer(resp~treat+(1|pat),family=binomial,data=x)
> lmer(resp~treat+(1|pat),family=binomial,data=x)
>
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