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Passing control options to lmer in adjust with multilevel=TRUE

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3/5
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1-2 days
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Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start at datawizard::adjust's multilevel=TRUE path and trace its call to lme4::lmer. Check how correlation::correlation is expected to pass control options such as lmerControl(optimizer='bobyqa'). Done means those options reach lme4::lmer and the behavior is covered by relevant tests.

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Description

This is a feature request, not a bug report.

It would be helpful to be able to pass control options (e.g.) lmerControl(optimizer='bobyqa') to datawizard::adjust (I really want to pass them from correlation::correlation to datawizard::adjust to lme4::lmer). I have some models that will not converge without some control parameter tweaks, which I can do manually with lmer but not in the convenient context of multilevel correlation.

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