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> 
>  library(aster2)
Loading required package: Matrix
This is beta software.
Unless you need to do aster models with dependence groups,
    use package "aster" instead.
See help(aster2-package) for differences from package "aster"
    and examples.

> 
>  data(test1)
> 
>  fred <- asterdata(test1,
+      vars = c("m1", "m2", "m3", "n1", "n2", "b1", "p1", "z1"),
+      pred = c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6), group = c(0, 1, 2, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0),
+      code = c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5),
+      families = list(fam.multinomial(3), "normal.location.scale",
+      "bernoulli", "poisson", "zero.truncated.poisson"))
> 
>  theta.star <- aster2:::starting(fred)
> 
>  idx.minus.one <- as.character(fred$redata$varb) == "n2"
> 
>  all(theta.star[idx.minus.one] == (- 1))
[1] TRUE
>  all(theta.star[! idx.minus.one] == 0)
[1] TRUE
> 
> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
   0.76    0.12    0.87