nlme function summary.lmList cannot be found with new versions
On 20/11/2013 21:42, Ben Bolker wrote:
megan herting <mherting <at> chla.usc.edu> writes:
Hello, I installed the newest version of R (3.0.2) as well as the newest version of nlme (3.1-113) in order to use summary.lmList and other nlme functions. Once loading the new library, lmList and summary.lm can be found, but a number of additional functions cannot be found via command. Versions installed and loaded are correct. Any suggestions on how to allow for these functions of the new version of nlme to be found and used?
R started exporting a lot fewer functions from base packages (i.e., making them easily/publicly available). You can use
Well, nlme is not a base package (it is a recommended package), and summary.lmList was not exported in 2004 when the current SVN repository was started. And I just fired up R 2.0.0 (Oct 2004) to cross-check.
getAnywhere() to find out where a hidden method lives, if you don't know, but in this case I think nlme:::summary.lmList should work. (For everyday use you shouldn't need to dig out hidden functions with ::: -- if you have an object of class 'lmList', then summary(object) should just work.)
As ?summary.lmList says the 'Usage' is. So someone is using some very old documentation.
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