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Greetings- I'm working through Pinheiro and Bates' _Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus_ using R (1.3.1 for linux). On page 13 (okay, so I haven't got that far :)) is: plot.design( ergoStool) which returns on my system: > plot.design(ergoStool) Error: couldn't find function "plot.design" any ideas? Thanks.

I tried to use LME (on a fairly large dataset, so I am not including it), and I got this error message: Error in lme.formula(formula(paste(c(toString(TargetName), "as.factor(nodeInd)"), : nlminb problem, convergence error code = 1 message = false convergence (8) Is there any way to get more information or to get the potentially wrong estimates from LME? (Also, the page in the