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lmerTest 3.2-0 (January 2026)

CRAN release: 2026-01-13

  • Update lmerTest to accommodate the new lme4-2.0.0
  • Fixed scoping issue reported by Uwe Ligges.

lmerTest 3.1-3 (October 2020)

CRAN release: 2020-10-23

  • Update a test to accommodate lme4::anova reporting NA instead of 1 for p-value when df=0.
  • No longer print message about missing cells with mean centered covariates for type III anova tables (issue #19)
  • Fix step such that fixed effects are reduced even if all random effects are reduced away (issue #23).

lmerTest 3.1-2 (April 2020)

CRAN release: 2020-04-08

  • Remove argument “…” to accommodate new version of lme4 (from version 1.1-22)
  • Minor fix to tests to accommodate new version of lme4 (from version 1.1-22)

lmerTest 3.1-1

CRAN release: 2019-12-13

  • Sofie P Jensen is taking over as maintainer replacing Per B Brockhoff.
  • Fixing “noLD” CRAN issue (a check that ensures the package works on systems without long doubles). This was caused by an over sensitive test.

lmerTest 3.1-0

CRAN release: 2019-02-11

  • Adding support for legacy model fits, i.e. merModLmerTest objects generated with lmerTest version < 3.0-0. This includes defining the merModLmerTest class and anova, summary, drop1, ls_means, lsmeansLT and difflsmeans methods. The usual lme4 methods also work with objects of class merModLmerTest.

lmerTest 3.0-1

CRAN release: 2018-04-23

  • over-sensitive tests (failing on Solaris) have reduced tolerance
  • sigma and sigma.merMod defined and exported for R <= 3.3.0
  • Warn if Kenward-Roger is used with R <= 3.3.0 since it may give incorrect results
  • Add lme4 (>= 1.1-10) and R (>= 3.2.5) to Depends (last available version where lmerTest checks out)
  • pbkrtest package loaded conditional on availability in tests

lmerTest 3.0-0

CRAN release: 2018-04-16

  • The new and completely re-written lmerTest package. Details of changes are available in pdf or html