offsets and weights don't work in v6.0-dev for glmSLMA (and therefore for the lmerSLMA functions too)

[tombisho]

In v5.1 offsets and weights work as expected for glmSLMA

In v6.0-dev, the error is returned:

invalid type (closure) for variable '(offset)'

I believe this is related to the modification of line 167 onwards:

	if(!(is.null(offset)))
		{
		cbindtext.offset <- paste0("cbind(", offset,")")
		offset <- eval(parse(text=cbindtext.offset))
		}

where in v6.0 we have the addition of env = parent.frame()

I will attempt to figure out what is going on, because I don't have a good understanding of the workings of R environments with DSI. But I guess that the offset vector is in the 'wrong' environment to be accessed by the glm model...

[tombisho]

An update. I actually think the problem is with having a variable called offset, which is actually a function in R. So R thinks you are trying to pass a function called offset, not a variable called offset. I think this will be fixed by changing the name of the variable (and probably do the same for weights too)

[StuartWheater]

@tombisho, it this still an issue? If it is does it require addressing before release of v6.0?