Hello I am trying to analyse mortality data from fish larvae using lme from the package nlme as well as using lmer in the package lme4 Response is DeathDay Fixed factor is Treatment Random factors are Clucth, Cup Design: Cup nested in Clutch If I do this in lme, I use the syntax: model1 <- lme(DeathDay ~ Treatment, random=~ 1 | Clutch/Cup) summary(model1) I get the first part of the output, but where should be "Correlation of Fixed Effects", I get this error message: Error in dim(x) : no slot of name "Dim" for this object of class "correlation" If I do the reciprocal thing in lmer (lme4) with the same data: model2<- lmer(DeathDay ~ Treatment + (1|Clutch:Cup) + (1|Clutch), method="REML") summary(model2) I get the correlations and no error message. Does anyone have any idea what this "dim(x)" problem means? /Andreas