On 12-09-17 6:26 PM, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
Dear list, Given a linear mixed model (from lme4) I want to 1) first change the input dataset and then 2) change the model formula. I want this to happen in a function call; Please see below. Options 1) and 2) below work whereas 3) fails with the message
I get the failure in 1), not in 3). I think it's a bug. The problem appears to be that the update method for mer objects looks in the wrong place for its variables. It is looking in parent.frame() (i.e. in the caller), but the caller isn't you. The method should be looking in parent.frame(2).
You can fix this yourself if you have the lme4 source (it's line 1483 of lmer.R in version 0.999999-0) but you probably want to send your sample code to the maintainers. Making that change might break something else.
Duncan Murdoch
foo()Error in is.data.frame(data) : object 'beets2' not found Question: What is it one must to in case 3) to have R look "inside" the function to figure out what "beets2" is? Best regards Søren ________________ library(pbkrtest) data(beets) lgs <- lmer(sugpct~block+sow+harvest+(1|block:harvest), data=beets, REML=F) foo <- function(){ ## 1) beets2 <- transform(beets, yy = sugpct * yield) ma1 <- lmer(yy~block+sow+harvest+(1|block:harvest), data=beets2, REML=F) ma0 <- update(ma1, yy~.) ## 2) cl <- getCall(lgs) cl[["data"]] <- beets2 mb1 <- eval(cl) mb0 <- update(mb1, yy~.) mb0 ## 3) cl <- getCall(lgs) cl[["data"]] <- as.name("beets2") mc1 <- eval(cl) mc0 <- update(mc1, yy~.) mc0 } foo() ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
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