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...cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe? I have an excel file on cdrom, say: /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls I have started R and loaded the RODBC package. I want to create a data frame ``melvin'' by reading in /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls. What (in monosyllables --- step by step) do I do next? cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca

...ence any correct inference from the fits is impossible). That's by-the-by, since my real concern at the moment is the singularity issue. But can any kind soul please tell me how I might *properly* fit the model in R? What package and function should I use, and what (very explicitly, in monosyllables, for I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me) is the correct syntax for expressing the models for the aforesaid function? Yes, I have looked at lme4 and lmer(), and I have (tried to) read Pinheiro and Bates, but I couldn't get it. As I said, I am a bear of very lit...