[R-sig-ME] Use of with() on an mer object

[Douglas Bates]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Murray Jorgensen <maj at waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
> Following John's suggestion I tried
>  showMethods(class="mer")
> which indeed generated a useful list of functions. This included:
>
> Function: with (package base)
> data="mer"
>
> I can't quite think how one might use with() on a mer object. How might one
> be expected to find out?

It provides access to slot names by creating a list (or environment, I
have forgotten the details) and evaluating an expression within that
context.

> There were one or two other functions [foo] whose use was not obvious.
> Invariably foo.lme was invisible so ?foo.lme was no help.
>
> Apologies if I've been told all this before. If I haven't used stuff for a
> while it tends to vanish from my memory!
>
> Murray
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