Add `print` method for `mmrm_tmb` about mmrm HOT 8 CLOSED

Great, thanks a lot, also for the added info in the issue description!

from mmrm.

Maybe it should be a print instead of a show method for the S3 object here actually. I think it would be nice so that when the user just looks at the fitted object without saying summary then they get a meaningful representation instead of a very long list being printed on the console.

from mmrm.

I'd take this issue. Can you assign it to me?

from mmrm.

Awesome, thanks @BrianLang ! I just added you as a collaborator. Please let me know if any questions. I will also add you to our standup meetings and Slack channel for communication.

from mmrm.

• see how other packages are doing it, e.g.:
  • glmmTMB: will look at this soon.
  • lme4: for lmList4 they use show to print out a model summary (coded within the function body), for merMod they first spec a S3 print method, and then call that in the S4 show method body. The difference seems to be that lmList4 inherits the print method from lme objects from the nmle package.

I see that we already have a print.summary method for mmrm objects, do we want a print method as well as a show? Kind of unclear as to when I'd want each of them. I don't think I've used show() before.

from mmrm.

Thinking about it more let's do it also here on the lower level mmrm_tmb object, and then this is inherited by the mmrm object. I added a few more detail ideas to the description.

from mmrm.

Okay, let's make an S3 print.mmrm_tmb and I'll use the approaches in the h_print_* methods.
Are those methods, which are used in print.summary.mmrm, presenting the output in the way you'd like for the base print.mmrm_tmb method?

• see how other packages are doing it, e.g.:
  • glmmTMB: glmmTMB uses print.glmmTMB to present their objects, with the typical model output that one would expect. Very similar to what you've spec'd in the issue description.

from mmrm.

Cool, yeah that format should be fine, but feel free to propose modifications, thanks Brian for working on this!

from mmrm.