R help - Apr 2003 - glm: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call

Dear all,
I am running the glm function (family: Poisson) in R and most of the time it
works fine. But sometimes, with large data sets, I get the following error
message:
Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) 

What puzzles me most about this is the fact that there are no missing values
in my vectors at all- so where do the missing values come from? Could this
be related to the size of the vectors I use?

Thanks

Janine

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Janine Illian
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J.Illian at abertay.ac.uk writes:
> Dear all,
> I am running the glm function (family: Poisson) in R and most of the time
it
> works fine. But sometimes, with large data sets, I get the following error
> message:
> Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) 
> 
> What puzzles me most about this is the fact that there are no missing
values
> in my vectors at all- so where do the missing values come from? Could this
> be related to the size of the vectors I use?
Try using control = list(trace = TRUE) in your call to glm to see what
the progress of the IRLS algorithm is.