How obtain the true residual deviance and degrees of freedom in R of a glm model when a set of parameters gets pasted() as a vector?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the question, but anova will compare models, and you can give it a test. I'm not sure about your statement regarding nesting (and will leave it up to you to be sure you are doing something sensible here).

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