R: Extracts random effects

REextract {merTools} | R Documentation

## Extracts random effects

### Description

Extracts random effect terms from an lme4 model

### Usage

    REextract(merMod)

### Arguments

`merMod` | a merMod object from the lme4 package

### Value

a data frame with the following columns

groupFctr

  The name of the grouping factor associated with the random effects

groupID

  The level of the grouping factor associated with the random effects

'term'

  One column per random effect, the name is derived from the merMod

'term'_se

  One column per random effect, the name is derived from the merMod

### Examples

    require(lme4)
    m2 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days | Subject), sleepstudy)
    rfx <- REextract(m2)
    #Note the column names
    head(rfx)

[Package merTools version 0.3.0 Index]