Can you give sessionInfo()? It is working fine for me.
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 2:38 PM
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> Subject: [R] VarCorr procedure from lme4
>
> Folks
>
> In trying to use lmer for a hierarchical model, I encountered the
> following message:
>
>
> Error in UseMethod("VarCorr") :
> no applicable method for 'VarCorr' applied to an object of class
"mer"
>
> foo.mer <- lmer(y ~ TP + (TP|M),data=joe.q)
>
> > head(joe.q[,1:5])
> TP M AB Trt y
> 1 1 Jan A NN 19.20002
> 2 1 Jan A NN 19.06378
> 3 1 Jan A NN 21.36292
> 4 1 Jan A NN 16.85191
> 5 1 Jan A N 17.89363
> 6 1 Jan A N 15.53853
> I tried this through the display(foo.mer) from arm and by VarCorr(foo.mer)
> My understanding is the VarCorr was essentially designed to work with
> 'mer' objects. Am I wrong about this? The lmer procedure seemed to
work
> fine
>
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