Namespace problem

[hagmann-statnlp]

Hi,

I installed the package in R (4.4.3) from CRAN yesterday. When I load the package some of the functions are not in the namespace of the package. These Functions are those who get exported via "S3method" in NAMESPACE:

S3method(APAStyler,modelTest.merMod)
S3method(R2,merMod)
S3method(modelCompare,merMod)
S3method(modelDiagnostics,lme)
S3method(modelDiagnostics,merMod)
S3method(modelPerformance,merMod)
S3method(modelTest,merMod)
S3method(plot,modelDiagnostics.lme)
S3method(plot,modelDiagnostics.merMod)
S3method(residualDiagnostics,lme)
S3method(residualDiagnostics,merMod)
export(acfByID)
export(evaluateLags)
export(iccMixed)
export(meanDecompose)
export(meanDeviations)
export(nEffective)
export(omegaSEM)
export(ranefdata)
export(weighted.sma)

I have no clue how to fix this problem? I hope that I post the issue in the right place.

Thanks and kind regards
Michael

[JWiley]

Hi Michael,

Can you clarify what your problem is? That is, what are you trying to do that does not work?

[hagmann-statnlp]

Hi,

Thanks for your quick response. I want call "modelDiagnostics" and "residualDiagnostics" method for merMod. But these functions are not available after calling library(multilevelTools). I can not even call them using multilevelTools:: prefix. They are simply not there. Only the functions below "acfByID" in the above list are available.

I am sorry for the fuzz.

[JWiley]

Okay that makes sense. This will work:

library(lme4)
library(JWileymisc)
library(multilevelTools)

m <- lmer(mpg ~ 1 + (1 | cyl), data  = mtcars)
plot(modelDiagnostics(m))

I will think if I can come up with any more elegant solution. The issue is that the generics for those functions are in JWileymisc --- covering things like lm() and glm(). So multilevelTools only defines methods, without the generics the methods don't work.

I don't really like making multiple functions of the same name (methods is generally a better approach I think) but I can see that it would be ideal not to need to load another package just to get the generic.