summary.glm objects

I?m having problems in the following lines:

lms <- summary(fit.model) # fit.model is a glm from gaussian 
family
s <- lms$sigma

s <- lms$deviance/lms$df.residual

Deviance is a more general term than standard deviation when fitting
non-gaussian models.

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