I don't think lme4 can handle user-specified correlation structures for the residuals (yet), which are necessary for animal models.
Cheers, Simon. On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 07:50 +1000, David Duffy wrote: > Deepa Senapathi asked: > > > > I am looking to do some quantitative genetic analyses using animal models > > and was wondering if someone could suggest an appropriate package in R. It > > would help if it was similar to the ASReml genetic analyses software. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Deepa Senapathi > > > > Deepa Senapathi > > Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER) > > School of Agriculture, Policy & Developement. > > University of Reading > > Earley Gate, Whiteknights Road, > > Reading RG6 6AR. > > Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 5467 > > See the R Genetics Task View. I think kinship (which uses lme) and > perhaps regress packages. For data amenable to an ANOVA/hierarchical > setup then lme4 as well (which does GLMMs nicely). Have you tried Wombat > (non-R)? > > David Duffy. > -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.