[R-sig-ME] Is anyone using the lmList() function in the lme4 package?

[Douglas Bates]

Thanks for all the responses, which do answer my question of whether
lmList is used and should be retained.  I will do so.

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Ian Dworkin <idworkin at msu.edu> wrote:
> Hi All
>
>  While it is very easy to write a function to perform the tasks of
> lmList(), from the point of view of teaching students who are still
> learning to write their own functions, it sometimes helps to have a
> function that already does it well. I use lmList() as I teach, for
> similar reasons as were mentioned earlier in this thread. So I "vote"
> to keep it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
> On 26 June 2010 18:02, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
>>> I would argue that it should be removed because it's pretty trivial to
>>> replace with a combination of split and lapply, or if you prefer,
>>> dlply from plyr.
>>
>> Note that it supports a pool= argument.
>>
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