I have added the Gamma family for glmer in the lme4a package and will
backport to the lme4 package. (Actually Ben Bolker sent me a patch
for lme4 several weeks ago and I haven't gotten around to installing
it yet but will do so.)
However, before I release it I would like to have an example data set
and model on which to test it. I don't have any. Could someone
provide me with a reference to data and a fitted model that I could
use as an example? I would also appreciate an example of a Poisson
GLMM and other families too.