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Ben Bolker <bbolker <at> gmail.com> writes:

  I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method
combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed
model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far without
success.

Answered my own question, finally.

  Apparently an explicit

export(ranef)

is required, even though there is also an

exportPattern("^[^\\.]")

in the NAMESPACE file, which I would have thought would
export 'ranef' along with everything else ... ?