[R] Extra rows of 'NAs' in imported dataset

Hello all: I'm hoping you can help me determine the source of this problem. I've just used read.csv to bring a small (581 rows, 9 vars) dataset into R (2.7.0., Mac OS 10.5.5). The dataset was created in Excel 2008 from a datadump from an Oracle database. I've done this many times before and had no

[R] Mirror/Package problems in R 2.8.0

Hello all, I've searched the lists and the web and not found an obvious answer to this; my apologies if I'm overlooking something. I've used 2.6.x for awhile; this morning, after installing 2.8.0 on my Mac OS X 10.5.5 machine, neither install.packages nor the "Packages & Data/Package Ins

[R] lmer and method call

Hello all, I'm attempting to fit a generalized linear mixed-effects model using lmer (R v 2.6.0, lmer 0.99875-9, Mac OS X 10.4.10) using the call: vidusLMER1 <- lmer(jail ~ visit + gender + house + cokefreq + cracfreq + herofreq + borcur + comc + (1 | code), data = vidusGD, family = binomial, co