> On Sep 27, 2016, at 8:11 PM, Karl Neergaard <karlneergaard at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you David for taking time to answer my not so helpful question.
>
I thought your question had sufficient detail for at least a reasonable guess at
an answer. When I first started using R I also thought that the gam function
would come from the gam package. It would certainly have been better to provide
a full question (starting with a library call to you package, creating a
dataset, quite possibly using one from the package help files, and running code
with complete text for all errors), but this was a case where I thought the
source of the problem was clear. I'm sure your next question will be more
complete and in plain text.
Best;
David,>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:15 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at
comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 26, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Karl Neergaard <karlneergaard at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I received an error message while trying to use family=scat in the GAM
> > package. The models were working fine yesterday.
> > The problem is not with my data seeing as the gaussian distribution is
> > working fine.
> >
> > mod=gam(RT~s(a) + s(b), data=dat, family=gaussian)
> > mod=gam(RT~s(a) + s(b), data=dat, family=scat)
> >
> > Might this problem be unrelated to GAM specifically, and to my R
> > configuration?
> > I have removed the gam package and re-installed it several times to no
> > avail.
>
> The scat function is in package mgcv. It also has a `gam` function and is
generally thought of as the "standard" approach for estimating
generalized additive models.
>
>
> >
> > Thank you for any assistance,
> > Karl
> >
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>
>
David Winsemius
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