That makes sense to me. Hadley On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. <thern...@mayo.edu> wrote: > User of the coxme library (mixed effects Cox models) are instructed to use > ranef(), fixed(), VarCorr(), etc to retrieve bits out of a fitted model; it > purposely uses the same methods as nlme and/or lmer. > > The current behavior is to "depend" on nlme. If I defined the methods > myself in coxme, then someone who had both nlme and coxme loaded will suffer > from "last loaded wins", and the methods for one or the other are not found. > I'm willing to update this but want to get it right. The import(nlme) + > nlme::ranef(fit) solution is not appealing. I don't mind putting :: in my > source code, but users of the package should not be forced into this. > > Is the correct current solution (using ranef as an example) > importFrom(nlme, ranef) > export(ranef) > > then use promptImport() to create a manual page? > > > If users always had only one of coxme, lmer, or nlme loaded in any given > session then there are multiple solutions, but occassionally one wants both > linear and Cox mixed effects. > > Terry T. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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