> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:33:59 -0600
> From: Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>
> Subject: [R-sig-ME] Lack of replies from me
> To: R Models Mixed <r-sig-mixed-models@r-project.org>
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> I regret that I have been absent from the list for some time.  It
> happens that in the last couple of weeks I have been involved in a
> series of extremely unpleasant interactions on another, private email
> list that have left me with little enthusiasm for developing and
> supporting CRAN packages.  One conclusion I have reached from these
> interactions is that I will never allow lme4 to be a recommended  
> package
> in R.  I am even having doubts about whether I want it to continue  
> to be
> a CRAN package at all, as opposed to, say, moving it to Bioconductor  
> or
> even switching development to another language.
>
> I'm sure the last option would be "cutting off my nose to spite my  
> face"
> and I don't expect I would ever do that.  There are many wonderful
> aspects to R and many reasons why I want to continue to use it.  But
> right now I find myself forced to evaluate options other than  
> putting a
> package on CRAN.


I am in the process of learning how to use lme4 for mixed models and  
I'm going through some textbook exaples and some old work I did. I was  
tempted to write how I felt lme4 was forcing me to be more rigorous in  
the way I was handling the data and specifying the model compared to  
nlme (strange but true), but lazyness got the better of me.

I know users (i.e. me) can be a pain at times, and can be fast to  
complain and slow to thank, so I take this opportunity to thank you.  
Like many here I hope lme4 will keep being developedn and being on  
CRAN, whether it becomes 'recommended' or not for R as a whole.

Best,

Federico

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Federico C. F. Calboli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus
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Tel +44 (0)20 75941602   Fax +44 (0)20 75943193

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