[R-sig-ME] lmer book draft

[Shige Song]

Creating an interface between Lme4 and MCMCglmm sounds like a really
great idea.

Shige

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I should have warned users about that.  The mcmcsamp function has not
> been written for the new formulation.  Part of it is the old problem
> of how you sample from the distribution of the variance-component
> parameters appropriately accounting for the possibility that variance
> components often have a non-negligible probability of being zero.
> Part of it is just finding the time to write the code.  For the time
> being I would suggest using Jarrod Hatfield's MCMCglmm package.  As a
> interim fix we may be able to collaborate on an interface between
> lme4a and MCMCglmm to take a fitted lmer model and use it to define
> the MCMCglmm model and plausible starting parameter values for the
> chains.
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Dieter Menne
> <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de> wrote:
>> With lme4a, profile and friends works for me, but mcmc seems to be broken (works
>> for lme4)
>>
>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>> ...
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lme4a_0.999375-45  Matrix_0.999375-37 lattice_0.18-3
>>
>>
>> library(lme4a)
>> sessionInfo()
>> (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1|Subject) + (0+Days|Subject), sleepstudy))
>> set.seed(101)
>> samp0 <- mcmcsamp(fm1, n = 1000)
>>
>> #Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
>> #  unable to find an inherited method for function "mcmcsamp", for signature
>> "lmerenv"
>>
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