require(robustlmm) set.seed(1) DyestuffWithOffset <- within(Dyestuff, { offset <- rnorm(length(Yield)) Yield <- Yield + offset }) testFormula <- function(formula, data) { print(summary(fm <- lmer(formula, data, control=lmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa")))) print(summary(rm <- rlmer(formula, data, rho.e = cPsi, rho.b = cPsi, init = lmerNoFit))) ranef.fm <- ranef(fm, condVar=FALSE) stopifnot(all.equal(coef(fm), coef(rm), tolerance = 1e-3, check.attributes = FALSE), all.equal(fixef(fm), fixef(rm), tolerance = 1e-3, check.attributes = FALSE), all.equal(ranef.fm , ranef(rm), tolerance = 1e-2, check.attributes = FALSE), all.equal(fitted(fm) , fitted(rm), tolerance = 1e-3, check.attributes = FALSE), all.equal(predict(fm) , predict(rm), tolerance = 1e-3, check.attributes = FALSE)) invisible(list(fm, rm)) } testFormula(Yield ~ offset(offset) + (1 | Batch), DyestuffWithOffset)