[R] Error in mkRespMod(fr, family = family) : response must be numeric

[David Winsemius]

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Tania Pollak <pollaktn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi --
> 
> I am new to R, and not much more advanced in stats, but am trying to learn
> my way through the program to finish my master's thesis.  I am trying to
> run tests using glmer, and am getting the above error message.
> 
> My code is:
> 
>> test1=glmer(V12~V10+(1|V4),family=poisson)
> Error in mkRespMod(fr, family = family) : response must be numeric
> 
> (The V's are the column numbers for the variable names -- the program
> doesn't seem to recognize the actual variable names, although they are in
> the table, but does recognize the column numbers.)

I do not understand what you are calling “the table”. Did you use attach() on a dataframe that has those variable names as its column names? Using `attach` is very unwise, often leading to getting puzzling error messages. If my guess is correct, you should detach() the dataframe and post the output of summary( <whatever name it might have>). It appears you do not understand what is in the `V12` column.


> 
> Any help is much appreciated.  I tried searching online for some guidance,
> but came up empty.
> 
> Thank you --
> 
> Tania
> 
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David Winsemius
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