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Dear list, I am trying to do a repeated analysis using lme in R and a little bit unsure if I have set up the right statement. The problem is the IL6 (interleukin 6) was measured 5 times on each individual in each of 6 companies. The hypotheses are to see whether there is a relationship between IL6 and the total dust in each of the companies and if there is any change in IL6 across time points. So the fixed effects are total dust, company and random effects...

Dear all, Here is my code which am using to combine 5th column from different data sets. Here is the function to do my job genesymbol.append.file <-NULL gene.column <- NULL readGeneSymbol <- function(files,genesymbol.column=5){ for(i in fnames){ temp <- read.table(fnames,header=T,sep="\t",stringsAsFactors=F,quote="\"")