[R-sig-ME] Help file inconsistency for VarCorr in lme4?

[Ben Bolker]

S Ellison <S.Ellison at ...> writes:

> 
>  The current CRAN package of lme4 (0.999999-2), 
>  running under R 3, says that VarCorr returns an (S4) object
> of  class VarCorr.
> 
> The function does seem not do that; it still returns a list as in earlier
versions of lme4. 
> 
> Have I missed something, or has the help file has got a 
>   bit ahead of the code... ?
> 

  This does look like a documentation typo.  Will be fixed
in lme4.0 on R-forge; we probably won't release another 
version of lme4 to CRAN before the 1.0 release.

  thanks
   Ben Bolker