I read somewhere (help list, documentation) that the random effects in lme4 uses sparse matrix "technology".
I'd like to confirm with others that I can't use a sparse matrix as a fixed effect? I'm getting an "Invalid type (S4) " error. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Robin Jeffries Dr.P.H. Candidate in Biostatistics UCLA School of Public Health rjeffr...@ucla.edu 530-624-0428 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.