Factors containing ":" not supported

[christinabergmann]

The following dataset contains ":" within a column of strings subid_unique and thus cannot be passed to R

using CSV, RCall
mb1 = CSV.read(
  download("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manybabies/mb1-analysis-public/fa7e77c026a4dc0b0bb7e78d3bf3771c9bc2f7cb/processed_data/03_data_trial_main.csv"),
     missingstrings=["NA","N/A"],
     truestrings=["TRUE"],
     falsestrings=["FALSE"])

@rput mb1

using MixedModels, JellyMe4
m1form = @formula log(looking_time) ~ trial_type * method +
                    trial_type * trial_num +
                    age_mo * trial_num +
                    trial_type * age_mo * nae +
                    (1 | subid_unique) +
                    (1 | lab);
m1 = fit(MixedModel, m1form, mb1, REML=true)
m1_lmm = Tuple([m1, mb1]);

@rput m1_lmm
`ERROR: RParseError: Error: unexpected ':'`

[palday]

It's the log transform that's going wrong.

[palday]

Latest push should catch this mistake for some common transforms.