[R-sig-ME] lmer not working

Georgina Brennan s1163484 at sms.ed.ac.uk
Thu Aug 7 13:40:04 CEST 2014


Hi all,

Thanks very much for your advise.  Updating R has solved my problem.  
Although I have been keeping my R studio up to date I neglected my R 
installation.

Thanks again,

Georgina

On 06/08/2014 15:30, Steve Walker wrote:
> Hi Georgina,
>
> I agree with Thierry that sessionInfo() would be very useful, 
> particularly given that this particular issue has been known to occur 
> _only_ for R version 3.0.0 (e.g. 3.0.1 is fine).  The following links 
> may be helpful:
>
> https://github.com/lme4/lme4/issues/54
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.lme4.devel/10720
>
> So unfortunately you might need to just update R.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 2014-08-06, 10:09 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
>> Dear Georgina,
>>
>> Have to tried to run your code in a fresh session? Can you provide a 
>> reproducible example of your problem and the output of sessionInfo()?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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>> Nature and Forest
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>> more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be 
>> able to say what the experiment died of.
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>>
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>> ~ Roger Brinner
>>
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>> not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given 
>> body of data.
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>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
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>> [mailto:r-sig-mixed-models-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Georgina 
>> Brennan
>> Verzonden: woensdag 6 augustus 2014 11:49
>> Aan: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org
>> Onderwerp: [R-sig-ME] lmer not working
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am using the lme4 package on R studio (v.0.98.994)****. I haven't 
>> used it in a while but I have been regularly updating my packages.  
>> Recently I attempted to run a simple mixed model:>
>> lmer(mean.perDay~complexity+(1|regime),data) and I get the following 
>> error message:
>>
>> Error in get(name, envir = asNamespace(pkg), inherits = FALSE) :
>>     object '.setDummyField' not found
>>
>>
>> My question is, has anyone else faced any difficulty using lmer and 
>> if so can you advise me on how to fix my problem?  I am a PC (windows 
>> 7) user.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Georgina
>>
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