Hello all, 

I'm an R novice, recently trying to implement R in my research. Using the
data frame below, I want to construct a repeated measures model, with energy
expenditure (kjday) as dependent of treatment (code) 
using mass as a covariate. 


ind     mass    kjday   code
79      15.8    45.216    3
42      16.5    44.64     3
10      14.85   45.216   3
206     15.75   45.216   3
23      12.15   42.336    3
5       14.6    51.264     3
....
79      16.9    46.944    5
42      16.6    44.352    5
10      15.6    51.552    5
206     15.5    45.504    5
23      12.3    42.336     5
5       13.9    42.624     5

I'm not all to sure on how to perform the analysis, but I've used the
follwing code: 

> library(nlme)
> summary(lme(kjday~code+mass,random=~1|ind))


To generate the following output:

Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML
 Data: NULL 
       AIC    BIC      logLik
  119.5274 124.75 -54.7637

Random effects:
 Formula: ~1 | ind
         (Intercept) Residual
StdDev: 0.0001336186 2.578544

Fixed effects: Kjday28 ~ code + mean.mass 
               Value        Std.Error DF   t-value p-value
(Intercept) 33.25184  6.123011 11  5.430634  0.0002
code        -0.10226  0.526522   10 -0.194218  0.8499
mean.mass  0.85440  0.387132 10  2.206988  0.0518
 Correlation: 
          (Intr) code  
code      -0.319       
mean.mass -0.935 -0.026

Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
       Min         Q1               Med         Q3          Max 
-1.0292955 -0.4640126 -0.2943731  0.1448909  2.2666898 

Number of Observations: 24
Number of Groups: 12 


Am I on the right track here? If so, would I be able to use the same code on
a repeated model with
more covariates, looking something like "energy
expenditure~temperature+treatment(2 levels)+mass" again including "subject"
as a random factor.

Best regards, 
Andreas Nord
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