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Dear R-Help members, I am using Simon Wood`s mgcv package version1.7-22and R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) for fitting a GAM-Model to the LIDAR Data contained in the "SemiPar" package. Here is the code for fitting the model and for plotting the result: data("lidar") attach(lidar) ### # mgcv fitting ### gam_fit <- gam(logratio ~ s(range, k = 40, bs = "cr"), gamma

Sometimes, for specific models, I get this error from predict.gam in library mgcv: Error in complete.cases(object) : negative length vectors are not allowed Here's an example: model.calibrate <- gam(meansalesw ~ s(tscore,bs="cs",k=4), data=toplot, weights=weight, gam.method="perf.magic") > test <- predict(model.calibrate,newdata) Error in

In Dr. Wood's book on GAM, he suggests in section 4.1.6 that it might be useful to shrink a single smooth by adding S=S+epsilon*I to the penalty matrix S. The context was the need to be able to shrink the term to zero if appropriate. I'd like to do this in order to shrink the coefficients towards zero (irrespective of the penalty for "wiggliness") - but not necessarily all the

Hello, Is it possible to estimate prediction interval using GAM? I looked through ?gam, ?predict.gam etc and the mgcv.pdf Simon Wood. I found it can calculate confidence interval but not clear if I can get it to calculate prediction interval. I read "Inference for GAMs is difficult and somewhat contentious." in Kuhnert and Venable An Introduction to R, and wondering why and if that

This is in regards to the suggested use of type="lpmatrix" in the documentation for mgcv::predict.gam. Could one not get the same result more simply by using type="terms" and interpolating each term directly? What is the advantage of the lpmatrix approach for prediction outside R? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Qusetion #1 ********* Model selection in GAM can be done by using: 1. step.gam {gam} : A directional stepwise search 2. gam {mgcv} : Smoothness estimation using GCV or UBRE/AIC criterion Suppose my model starts with a additive model (linear part + spline part). Using gam() {mgcv} i got estimated degrees of freedom(edf) for the smoothing splines. Now I want to use the functional form of my model

Hello, I am trying to update the mgcv package on my Linux box and I keep getting an "Out of memory!" error. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Below is a snippet of the message that I keep getting: Thank you. Geoff ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'mgcv' Formats:

I am trying to compare and contrast the smoothing in the {mgcv} version of gam vs. the {gam} version of gam but I get a strange side effects when I try to alternate calls to these routines, even though I detach and unload namespaces. Specifically when I start up R the following code runs successfully until the last line i.e. plot(g4,se=TRUE) when I get "Error in dim(data) <- dim :

Version 4.63 of the caret package is now on CRAN. caret can be used to tune the parameters of predictive models using resampling, estimate variable importance and visualize the results. There are also various modeling and "helper" functions that can be useful for training models. caret has wrappers to over 99 different models for classification and regression. See the package vignettes

Version 4.63 of the caret package is now on CRAN. caret can be used to tune the parameters of predictive models using resampling, estimate variable importance and visualize the results. There are also various modeling and "helper" functions that can be useful for training models. caret has wrappers to over 99 different models for classification and regression. See the package vignettes

Dear Simon, Thank you for your quick reply! I used to perform the GAMsetup in the following manner: GAMsetup sintax: x.summer: vector used for construct the spline knots<-14 N<-length(x.summer) x<-array(x.summer,dim=c(1,N)) G<-list(m=1,n=N,nsdf=0,df=knots+1,dim=1,s.type=0,by=0,by.exists=FALSE,p.order=0,x=x,n.knots=knots,fit.method="mgcv") H<-GAMsetup(G) with the

Dear all, I run the GAMs (generalized additive models) in gam(mgcv) using the following codes. m.gam <-gam(mark~s(x)+s(y)+s(lstday2004)+s(ndvi2004)+s(slope)+s(elevation)+disbinary,family=binomial(logit),data=point) And two repeated warnings appeared. Warnings$B!'(B 1: In gam.fit(G, family = G$family, control = control, gamma = gamma, ... : Algorithm did not converge 2: In gam.fit(G,

Readers, I have been reading 'the r book' by Crawley and think that the generalised additive model is appropriate for this problem. The package 'gam' was installed using the command (as root) install.package("gam") ... library(gam) > library(gam) Loading required package: splines Loading required package: akima > library(mgcv) This is mgcv 1.3-25 Attaching

Hello, I have a GAM plot in 3D which was generated from the mgcv package (plot.gam) which seems to call the persp( ) function from graphics. This plot is one of three being plotted in the graphics window to copy to a manuscript. The plot's rotation has been set to clearly show the response surface generated in GAM. The resulting plot is small enough that the tick labels overlap tick

Hi, I am using the gam function in the mgcv package, I have random effects in my model (bs="re") this has worked fine, but after I updated the mgcv package to version 1.7-19 I recive an error message when I run the model. > fit1<-gam(IV~s(RUTE,bs="re")+s(T13)+s(H40)+factor(AAR)+s(V3)+s(G1)+s(H1)+s(V1)+factor(LEDD),data=data5,method="ML") > summary.gam(fit1)

Hi everyone, I can't figure out how to extract by-factor random effect adjustments from a gam model (mgcv package). Example (from ?gam.vcomp): library(mgcv) set.seed(3) dat <- gamSim(1,n=400,dist="normal",scale=2) a <- factor(sample(1:10,400,replace=TRUE)) b <- factor(sample(1:7,400,replace=TRUE)) Xa <- model.matrix(~a-1) ## random main effects Xb <-

Hi, I have a piece of R code that calls mgcv::gam. The code runs fine in the interactive mode, but terminates R w/o a single message when run non-interactively. Though I think I should be able to locate the problem by brute force I'd appreciate an advise how to do it more intelligently using R debugging tools. At this time I only know that it has something to do with me loading my custom

Hi, I need further help with my GAMs. Most models I test are very obviously non-linear. Yet, to be on the safe side, I report the significance of the smooth (default output of mgcv's summary.gam) and confirm it deviates significantly from linearity. I do the latter by fitting a second model where the same predictor is entered without the s(), and then use anova.gam to compare the

Dear R-Helpers, I posted two days ago on testing significance of random effects in mgcv, but realize I did not make my overall purpose clear. I have a series of N short time series, where N might range from 3-10 and short means a median of 20 time points. The sample data below (PCP) has N = 4 cases with 9, 13, 16 and 16 observations over time respectively. The data set contains four

Hi,everyone, I am studying the generalized additive model and employ the package 'mgcv' developed by professor Wood. However,I can not understand the example listed in check.in function. For example, library(mgcv) set.seed(1) dat <- gamSim(1,n=400,scale=2) ## fit a GAM with quite low `k' b<-gam(y~s(x0,k=6)+s(x1,k=6)+s(x2,k=6)+s(x3,k=6),data=dat) plot(b,pages=1,residuals=TRUE)