[R-sig-ME] Likelihood

[Ben Bolker]

Bonitta Gianluca <bbonit at ...> writes:

> 
> 
> Thank you for replay my proble is how to suite lme4 (that calculate loglike 
> into maxium likelihood value) for have a flexible tool (wrote by professor 
> Bates ( so an efficent tool) for build up the likelihood for posterior MCMC
> 

  Take a look at the development version of lme4 (on R-forge, very
most recent version on github), which has a 'devFunOnly' argument which
returns a deviance function ...