Dear fellow R.users/.lovers,
 
I am very new to both R and this list, so I hope you will be patient with me in 
the beginning if my enquiries are inappropriate/unclear.
 
I am trying to perform some rather complex statistical modelling using 
mixed-effects models.
 
I have, after a rather difficult beginning, finally boiled down my model (using 
the lme function in nlme) to a couple of fixed effects and their interactions, 
plus a couple of nested random effects. 
 
For the moment I will not include the details because the dataset is rather 
large and without it is difficult to be more specific, but I can provide them 
if requested.
 
My question is maybe a bit trivial, but I would like to get out of the model 
the pairwise comparisons for all the factor levels using TukeyHSD, but when I 
try to do this using the "glht" method in the multcomp library I get an error 
message which seems to indicate a wrong synthax, yet I think I am following the 
instructions given on the package documentation. Below are the code lines and 
the R reply.
 
> glht(inner.exch.M9.lme,linfct=mcp(Personality:Day = "Tukey"))
Error: unexpected '=' in "glht(inner.exch.M9.lme,linfct=mcp(Personality:Day ="

(inner.exch.M9.lme is the model object, Personality and Day are the two fixed 
factors the levels of which I want to compare)
 
I also tried without the interaction symbol and only one factor, with the same 
result.
 
As I understand it, the multcomp package is new so maybe the method is not 
implemented for complex designs yet.
 
Any suggestion will be appreciated (including such as "read the instructions" 
if they can point me to such instructions!).
 
 
Thank you very much in advance and all the best
 
Giuliano
 
 
 

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