similar to: nmle: gnls freezes on difficult case

When I run gnls I get the error: Error in nls(y ~ cbind(1, 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/exp(lscal)))), data = xy, : step factor 0.000488281 reduced below 'minFactor' of 0.000976563 My first thought was to decrease minFactor but gnlsControl does not contain minFactor nor nlsMinFactor (see below). It does however contain nlsMaxIter and nlsTol which I assume are the analogs of

I'm working with data measured in a tunnel to estimate the emission factor of heavy & light vehicles. I tried to use 'gnls' and I get the following Error: >> Error in "coef<-.corARMA"(*tmp*, value = c(174.267493382104, 173.412740072763 : >> Coefficient matrix not invertible Here is my R-code: data <- d.plabutsch.neu # calculating the starting

Hello, nls library provides 6 self-starting models, among them: SSfp, a four parameters logistic function. Its self-starting procedure involves several steps. One of these steps is: pars <- as.vector(coef(nls(y ~ cbind(1, 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/exp(lscal)))), data = xydata, start = list(lscal = 0), algorithm = "plinear"))) which assumes an initial value of lscal equal to 0. If lscal

Hi R-users, Could you give me some advice in solving the problem of such error message from gnls and nls? ## begin error message "Problem in gnls(y1 ~ glogit4(b, c, m, t, x), data.frame(x..: Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step " ##and "Problem in nls(y ~ 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/scal)), data = x..: step factor reduced below minimum "? Thank you in

Howdee, My question appears at #6 below: 1. I want to model the growth of each of a large number of individuals using a 4-parameter logistic growth curve. 2. nlme does not converge with the random structure that I want to use. 3. nlsList does not converge for some individuals. 4. I decided to go around nlsList using: t(sapply(split(data, list(data$id)), function(subd){coef(nls(mass ~

Hello, I'm using the nls function and would like to increase the number of iterations. According to the documentation as well as other postings on R-help, I've tried to do this using the "control" argument: nls(y ~ SSfpl(x, A, B, xmid, scal), data=my.data, control=nls.control(maxiter=200)) but no matter how much I increase "maxiter", I get the following error

Last week (Wed 9/10/2003, "regression questions") I posted a question regarding the use of gnls( ) and its dissimilarity to the syntax that nls( ) will accept. No one replied, so I partly answered my own question by constructing indicator variables for use in gnls( ). The code I used to construct the indicators is at the end of this email. I do have a nagging, unanswered

Hi: I have data from an assay in the form of two vectors, one is response and the other is a predictor. When I attempt to fit a 5 parameter logistic model with "nls", I get converged parameter estimates. I also get the same answers with "gnls" without specifying the "weights" argument. However, when I attempt to use the "gnls" function and try to

I'm trying to fit a Gompertz sigmoid as follows: x <- c(15, 16, 17, 18, 19) # arbitrary example data here; y <- c(0.1, 1.8, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9) # actual data is similar gm <- nls(y ~ a+b*exp(-exp(-c*(x-d))), start=c(a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?)) I have been unable to properly set the starting value '?'s. All of my guesses yield either a "singular gradient" error if they

Back on January 16, a message on R-help from Ravi Varadhan described a problem with gnls using weights=varPower(). The problem was that the fit failed with error Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Object "." not found I can reliably get this error in version 2.0.1-patched 2004-12-09 on Windows XP and 2.0.1-Patched 2005-01-26 on Linux. The key feature of that example is that the

>>>>> "VW" == Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <Wolfgang.Viechtbauer at STAT.unimaas.nl> >>>>> on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:00:19 +0200 writes: VW> Hi all, I'm trying to fit a marginal (longitudinal) VW> model with an exponential serial correlation function to VW> the Orange tree data set. However, R crashes frequently VW>

Doug, I have been attempting to learn a little bit about nlme without too much documentation except the online help. The Latex file in the nlme directory looks interesting but uses packages that I do not have so that I have not been able to read it. I have run the example from gnls to compare it with the results I get from my libraries (code below - I have not included output as it is rather

Dear R-helpers, I'm using R 2.5.0 under Windows and am trying to use nlsList from nlme 3.1-80 with the selfstart function for the four parametric logistic function. My first test went well, but now I'm trying to do some more sophisticated things and it does not work anymore. I simulate my data from a five parametric logistic function like this:

This works fine: fit42<-nls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) But this, identical except using gnls, doesn't converge: fit43<-gnls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) Error in gnls(Vfs

I have been using gnls with the weights argument (and varConstPower) to specify a variance structure for curve fits. In attempting to extract the parameters for the variance model I am seeing results I don't understand. When I simply display the model (or use "summary" on the model), I get what seem like reasonable values for both "power" and "const". When I

Hi all, I'm trying to fit a nonlinear (logistic-like) regression, and I'd like to get some recommendations for which package to use. The expression I want to fit is something like: y ~ A * exp(X * Beta1) / (1 + exp(-(x + X * Beta2 - xmid)/scal)) Basically, it's a logistic function, but I want to be able to modify the saturation amplitude by a few parameters (Beta1) and shift the

Dear R users, I'm applying a correlation structure in a mixed model (nmle function) to control for spatial correlation between land parcels that are adjacent to each other. I generated X,Y coordinates in ArcGIS for each land parcel and used them in the correlation form like this: test.exp<-corExp(1, form = ~ X + Y) test.exp<- Initialize(test.exp,dataset) However, the correlation

Hi I am using R 1.7.1 on RH linux 9.0 > sum(unlist(lapply(ls(),function(x)object.size(get(x)))))/1024^2 [1] 2.424263 so I am not using much memory (I have a gig of ram on my machine) now in nlme > gtest<-groupedData(log(X8)~Time|sub,all[,c(names(all)[1:9],"X8")],outer=~A*B) > object.size(gtest)/1024 [1] 59.98438 > plot(gtest,outer=~Dose*chem,key=FALSE,asp=.5) Plotting

Following the Indomethicin example in Pinheiro & Bates, chapter 6, page 277 etc, coming to the following comand: fm2Indom.nlme <- update( fm1Indom.nlme, random = pdDiag(A1 + lrc1 + A2 ~ 1) ) debugging nlme gives the following output: Browse[1]> n debug: modelResid <- ~eval(model, data.frame(data, getParsNlme(plist, fmap, rmapRel, bmap, groups, beta, bvec, b, level,

Hello. I have 16 subjects with 1-4 obs per subject. I am using the package "nlme" to fit a simple random effects (variance components model) with 3 parameters: overall mean (fixed effect), between subject variance (random) and within subject variance (random). I need a 3x3 variance-covariance matrix that includes all 3 parameters in order to compute the variance of a specific