On Nov 17, 2010, at 5:22 PM, <bill.venab...@csiro.au> <bill.venab...@csiro.au > wrote:

The function is not exported from the package. You have to get tough with it, e.g.

library(nlme)
summary.lme
Error: object 'summary.lme' not found



But if you insist:

nlme:::summary.lme
function (object, adjustSigma = TRUE, verbose = FALSE, ...)
{
   fixed <- fixef(object)
...

You cannot do this with lme4 since there the methods are S4 rather than S3 (which is why it has a 4 in the name, I suspect, like the stats4 package).

Then I must be confused. The usual approach of :

methods(summary.lme)  ---> summary.lme*  (among many others)
getAnywhere(summary.lme)

A single object matching ‘summary.lme’ was found
It was found in the following places
  registered S3 method for summary from namespace nlme
  namespace:nlme

... seems to work just fine.

--
David.



Also, tucked away in the 'ape' package there is a function varcomp() which extracts variance components from lme objects. This is all I have ever needed in addition to what is provided in nlme directly.

Bill V.

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org ] On Behalf Of Joanna Geller
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 8:07 AM
To: David Winsemius
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Problem with nlme package

Thanks for the suggestions - I tried all of them, including
require(lme4) and require(nlme) and summary.lme still cannot be found.
I want to use it to get full output of a multi-level model. Maybe it's
a Mac thing?

Any other suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks, again.


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net > wrote:

On Nov 17, 2010, at 4:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Nov 17, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Joanna Geller wrote:

Hello,

I have installed the nlme package, but every time I try to use the
function "summary.lme,"

How did you "try to use it"?

I get a message that the function cannot be
found.


If it says it cannot be found, then you quite possibly forgot to load the
"lme4" package.

(or the nlme package)
Try:

require(nlme)

--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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