R help - Nov 2004 - warning message

Hi, 

I am using the glmmPQL package, and when I run the program I got the 
following warning messages:

1: non-integer #successes in a binomial glm! in: eval(expr, envir, 
enclos) 
2: Singular precision matrix in level -1, block 5 

 What do thy mean?

Thanks

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 sgrabasa at escet.urjc.es wrote:
> I am using the glmmPQL package, 
I can find no such package: is this the glmmPQL function in the MASS 
package?
> and when I run the program I got the 
> following warning messages:
> 
> 1: non-integer #successes in a binomial glm! in: eval(expr, envir, 
> enclos) 
> 2: Singular precision matrix in level -1, block 5 
> 
>  What do thy mean?
The first means what it says: you have specified the binomial glm 
incorrectly.  Please read the posting guide and remember to send us useful 
information about what you were doing.

The second means the model fitting process got stuck, and is more likely 
an error message.  Given the first, no great surprise.

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