ngrps {lme4} | R Documentation

## Number of Levels of a Factor or a "merMod" Model

### Description

Returns the number of levels of a `factor` or a set of factors, currently e.g., for each of the grouping factors of `lmer()`, `glmer()`, etc.

### Usage

    ngrps(object, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | an `R` object, see Details.
`...` | currently ignored.

### Details

Currently there are methods for objects of class `merMod`, i.e., the result of `lmer()` etc, and `factor` objects.

### Value

The number of levels (of a factor) or vector of number of levels for each “grouping factor” of a

### Examples

    ngrps(factor(seq(1,10,2)))
    ngrps(lmer(Reaction ~ 1|Subject, sleepstudy))

    ## A named vector if there's more than one grouping factor :
    ngrps(lmer(strength ~ (1|batch/cask), Pastes))
    ## cask:batch      batch
    ##         30         10

    methods(ngrps) # -> "factor" and "merMod"

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