I am following the example in the vignette for hdlm (p. 19), but I cannot get it to to fit a logistic. For those who don't know the package, it allows one to fit high dimensional data where the number of variables may exceed the number of cases. library(hdlm) LMFUN <- function(x,y) return(glm(y ~ x, family=binomial(link=logit))) FUNCVFIT <- function(x,y) return(cv.glmnet(x, y, family='binomial')) set.seed(1234) xx<-matrix(runif(20*4),20,4) #20 cases, 4 variables xx[,1]<-xx[,1]+1:20 yy<-c(0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1) #ordinary glms are fitted with no problems with yy either factor or numeric fit1<-glm(as.factor(yy)~xx,family=binomial) fit2<-glm(yy~xx,family=binomial) fit3<-hdlm(as.factor(yy) ~ xx, LMFUN = LMFUN, FUNCVFIT = FUNCVFIT) This produces the error: =======Error in { : task 1 failed - "(list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'" In addition: There were 11 warnings (use warnings() to see them) ======== fit4<-hdlm(yy ~ xx, LMFUN = LMFUN, FUNCVFIT = FUNCVFIT) This produces: ===========Error in { : task 1 failed - "(list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'" In addition: Warning messages: 1: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 2: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 3: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 4: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 5: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 6: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 7: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 8: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 9: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold 10: Option grouped=FALSE enforced in cv.glmnet, since < 3 observations per fold ============ Please tell me how to fit the glm in hdlm. Thanks very much for any help. Stan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]