[R] syntax of nlme

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Mon Oct 9 19:00:35 CEST 2006


Thomas Wutzler <twutz <at> bgc-jena.mpg.de> writes:

> without grouped data (athough I recommend using grouped data after
> reading the book), the call can be formulated as:

Well, this is probably the only point where I disagree with Douglas Bates. I
found using grouped data introduces a level of indirection that makes life more
difficult. And, if you check the examples in this list, very few of them use
grouped data.

So I would wish that in the coming book there were more examples without grouped
data, as I know that finding the right syntax for these is difficult when the
book mainly hast groupedData examples.

Dieter



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