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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got an error message when using gllmADMB under R 2.12.0. I solved it myself, but you might want to know about it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Using R 2.12.0, I had just installed <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>glmmADMB</span></em> version 0.4-2 from R-Forge. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When running the function<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (fm <- glmm.admb(y~Base*trt+Age+Visit, random=~Visit, group="subject",<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> data=epil2, family="nbinom"))<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got the error message<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“'.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>etcetera. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Inspired by the answer given by Dave Fournier (aug 30, 2010) that I found on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/admb-users/browse_thread/thread/3290046d9a63be70">http://groups.google.com/group/admb-users/browse_thread/thread/3290046d9a63be70</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I did a bit of hacking on glmm.admb. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It turns out that the command <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white'>cmd <- paste("\"", system.file("bin", "windows", file_name, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white'> package = "glmmADMB"), ".exe", "\"", " ", cmdoptions, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white'> sep = "")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>is not working properly on my installation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I change it to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white'>cmd <- paste("C:/R/R-2.12.0/library/glmmADMB/bin/windows/nbmm.exe \ ",cmdoptions,sep="")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(which is the file path and name on my installation), all works fine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So it seems that the system.file() function does not work as you expect it to.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know too little of R to easily see what is going wrong there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck, cheers to you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom Snijders <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom A.B. Snijders<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Politics and Department of Statistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nuffield College<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>tel. +44-01865-278599<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>