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Dear all, Has anyone written functions to compute (and ideally project / plot onto a plane) confidence ellipsoids for q linear model parameters, q > 2 ? Greetings and best wishes, Renaud -- Dr Renaud Lancelot, v?t?rinaire CIRAD, D?partement Elevage et M?decine V?t?rinaire (CIRAD-Emvt) Programme Productions Animales http://www.cirad.fr/presentation/programmes/prod-ani.shtml ISRA-LNERV

I'm written a function that uses nls in a loop to fit a model to resampled data. Occasionally a sample is drawn such that the algorithm (apparently) can't converge and step factor reduced below minimum is printed to the screen. I tried a few different settings for the minFactor parameter in nls.control with no different result. When this happens, I would like my function to put NAs