Restart mixed effect model estimation with previously estimated values

Question

I\'m using lmer() in package lme4 to estimate mixed effects models. This works well, but now I want to run the estimation process for a fixed number o

Answer 1

This was a confirmed bug in lme4 and as per the comments

I've logged an issue at github.com/lme4/lme4/issues/55 – Andrie Jul 2 '13 at 15:42

This should be fixed now for lmer (although not for glmer, which is slightly trickier). – Ben Bolker Jul 14

That was back when the version was < 0.99999911-6; lme4 on CRAN has had versions > 1.0-4 since 21-Sep-2013.