Dear R Users, I am having trouble with lmer. I am looking at recombinant versus non recombinant individuals. In the response variable recombinant individuals are coded as 1's and non-recombinant as 0's. I built a model with 2 fixed factors and 1 random effect. Sex (males/females) is the first fixed effect and sexual genotype (XY, YY, WX and WY) the second one. Sexual Genotype is nested in sex. XY and YY individuals are males and WX and WY females. I crossed 8 XY males with 8 WY females and 8 YY males with 8 WX females. Each cross corresponds to a family (i.e. family 1 to 8 for XY x WY and family 9 to 16 for YY WX). For each family I have 20 offspring. Family is nested in sexual genotype as a random factor.
My data looks like: reps<-factor(sample(c(0,1),640,replace=T,prob=c(0.95,0.05))) sex<-factor(rep(c("M","F"),each=320)) geno<-factor(rep(c("XY","YY","WY","WX"),each=160)) fam<-factor(rep(c(1:8,9:16,1:8,9:16),each=20)) dat<-data.frame(reps,sex,geno,fam) and I built the following model: lmer(reps~sex+geno+(1|fam),data=dat,family=binomial) and tried also lmer(reps~sex/geno+(1|fam),data=dat,family=binomial) but I keep getting this error: asMethod(object) : matrix is not symmetric [1,2] Does someone have an idea where the error might come from? Thank you very much in advance! Olivier Sex-chromosome turnovers induced by deleterious mutation load [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.