## $Id: README,v 3.1 1999/03/11 11:27:50 silvia Exp silvia $

	     Transcripts of lme analyses of examples from
		    "SAS System for Mixed Models"

			    Douglas Bates
	     Dept. of Statistics, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

			   Jose C. Pinheiro
		    Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

This directory contains transcripts of analyses of some of the
examples from the book "SAS System for Mixed Models" by Littell,
Milliken, Stroup, and Wolfinger (SAS Institute, 1996).  They 
primarily use the lme function for fitting linear mixed effects models.

The transcripts were obtained running S-PLUS 6, and nlme version 3.3.

For each example there is a file with a .St extension which is an
S-transcript file.  Another file with a .q extension contains the
commands and comments only.  If you have the data files available as S 
objects in the directory ../data/.Data, you should be able to
reproduce the HR.St transcript, for example, by defining a .First
function so that the SAS_Mixed/.Data directory gets attached.   
We also use a setting for the options of
 options( width = 65, length = 10000, digits = 5, prompt = "S> " )

Then
          Splus BATCH HR.q HR.out

should produce a file HR.out similar to the HR.St file.  The graphics
will be in a file with a name like ps.out.0001.ps

