[Rd] import question

[Ben Bolker]

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 ... ?