Spencer Graves wrote: > Have you considered "VarCorr"? I've used it with "lme", and the >documentation in package lme4 suggests it should work with GLMM, which >might also do what you want from glmmPQL.
Thanks for the pointer (I was not aware that nlme and lme4 had different versions of lme), but I'm still stuck at the same place using lme4:> VarCorr(fit) Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. yeart (Intercept) 0.040896 0.20223 Residual 0.091125 0.30187 The number I need to extract and store is the .20223, but all the components I can find in VarCorr(fit) are something else. u=VarCorr(fit); slotNames(u) [1] "scale" "reSumry" "useScale" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] 0.3018693 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $yeart An object of class "corrmatrix" (Intercept) (Intercept) 1 Slot "stdDev": (Intercept) 0.6699156 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] TRUE In glmmML the estimate is returned as the $sigma component of the model, but I also need the same info from 'family=gaussian' models. Stephen P. Ellner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2701 Phone (607) 254-4221 FAX (607) 255-8088 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html