[R-sig-ME] Fit SGLMM by lme4 package

[Douglas Bates]

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On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:44 PM,  <hbaghishani at modares.ac.ir> wrote:
> Dear Professor Bates,

> I would like to fit an spatial generalized linear mixed model, for example
> to model spatial count responses, by Laplace approximation and by using lme4
> R package. I'm very enthusiastic if it is possible to implement this fitting
> by glmer in lme4 package?

I'm not exactly sure what a spatial generalized linear mixed model is.
 Could you or someone else on the list elaborate, please?