The current CRAN package of lme4 (0.999999-2), running under R 3, says that VarCorr returns an (S4) object of class VarCorr.
The function does seem not do that; it still returns a list as in earlier versions of lme4.
Have I missed something, or has the help file has got a bit ahead of the code... ?
Steve Ellison
LGC
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