[R-sig-ME] [R] understanding I() in lmer formula

[Andrew Robinson]

Don,

can you provide a minimal executable example?

Cheers,

Andrew

On 14 Jun 2017, 6:15 AM +1000, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Not that I really have a clue, but what is that "~" doing in the error message??
>
> -pd
>
> > On 13 Jun 2017, at 21:20 , Don Cohen <don-r-help at isis.cs3-inc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bert Gunter suggested posting this here:
> >
> > Is there a difference between I(x*y) and I(y*x) ?
> > I have a call to lmer that results in this complaint:
> > Error in is.alpha2.subordinate * ~z.min.co.res :
> > non-numeric argument to binary operator
> > when I change this line:
> > I(is.alpha2.subordinate*z.min.co.res)+
> > to this:
> > I(z.min.co.res*is.alpha2.subordinate)+
> > the complaint goes away.
> > I'd like to understand why.
> >
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