Dear all, I would like to fit growth data to a smooth curve (preferably using a Stineman interpolation). Then I would like to find the intersection of the curve with a horizontal line (e.g. 0). See below for a coding example. The root finding using 'uniroot' works fine if I fit the data with 'smooth.spline', but not if I fit the data with 'stinterp' (stinepack) or 'spline'. The error message is: ## using "predict" results in error message: no applicable method for 'predict' applied to an object of class "list" What does this mean? I would greatly appreciate any help in this. Obviously, I'm missing something basic here, but I just recently started learning [R]. Thank you very much for your help! Best, Marc -------------------- # growth data x <- c(-0.60206, -0.30103, 0, 0.30103, 0.60206, 0.90309, 1.2041, 1.5051, 1.8062, 2.1072) y <- c(1, 1.1203, 1.0689, 1.1433, 1.0283, 0.4604, 0.0752, -0.05, -0.1, -0.2) require(stinepack) xo <- seq(-0.7,2*pi,by=pi/250) a.smspl <- stinterp(x,y,xo) ## 'stinterp' does not work. 'smooth.spline' works # a.smspl <- smooth.spline(x, y, df=6) ## using "predict" together with 'stinterp' or 'spline' results in the following error message: ## no applicable method for 'predict' applied to an object of class "list" -> what does this mean? # root finding p.smspl <- function(x) predict(a.smspl, x)$y root1 = uniroot(f=p.smspl, interval=c(0.4, 2))$root [1] 1.388058 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/stinterp-spline-uniroot-problem-tp3554786p3554786.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.