On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Ista Zahn <iz...@psych.rochester.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm sure this has been asked before, but I could not find the right > search terms to find it. > > If I want to see what summarizing a model fit with lm() does, I can > write "summary.lm". But what if I want to see what summarizing a model > fit with lmer() (lme4 package) does? > > showMethods(summary) > Function: summary (package base) > object="ANY" > object="character" > (inherited from: object="ANY") > object="mer" > object="sparseMatrix" > object="summary.mer" > > tells me there is a "mer" method, but "summary.mer" gives me no joy. > How can I see what summary.mer does? Do I have to inspect the source > code?
Actually if you had followed up with the documentation for showMethods you would have found out. showMethods(summary, class = "mer", include = TRUE) More details are given in Uwe's article in issue 4 of 2006 R News http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4.pdf ______________________________________________ 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.
