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rbchan / unmarked

R package for hierarchical models in ecological research
https://rbchan.github.io/unmarked/
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Remove lme4 #266

Open kenkellner opened 9 months ago

kenkellner commented 9 months ago

We currently use lme4 to handle bar expressions in formulas (via findbars and nobars) and to create the Z random effects matrix (via mkReTrms). This pull request re-writes this functionality from scratch (to better match what we use it for) and thus removes the lme4 dependency.

kenkellner commented 2 months ago

I think I probably will not merge this because it looks like the reformulas package will be on CRAN soon, which would provide the formula processing tools without the weight of the rest of lme4.