Error w/ mice()

[vonda12]

Hi there!

I'm trying to run multiple imputation using mice() and following advice from van Buuren's book "Flexible Imputation of Missing Data" (for multilevel data, specifically), but I get the following error:

Error in str2lang(x) : :1:131: unexpected ')'
1: dv._lmer~....

(after ~ the imputation model is shown)

Any idea where this may be coming from and how to fix it?

Thanks!

[mara]

It looks like you have a renegade parenthesis somewhere in your code, but it's really hard to tell what the problem is without seeing your code.
Could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.

install.packages("reprex")

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A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…

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