Hi, I am not sure this is a bug but I can repeat it, The functions and data are below. I know this is nasty data, and it is very questionable whether a 4pl model is appropriate, but it is data fed to an automated tool and I would have hoped for an error. Does this repeat for anyone else? My details: > version _ platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 6.0 year 2007 month 10 day 03 svn rev 43063 language R version.string R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
start=c(-1.5, 9.5, 0.09, 10.25) names(start)<-c("A","B","xmid","scal") gnls(response~SSllogis(conc,A,B,xmid,scal),tdat,start=start,weights=varPower(),verbose=TRUE) **Iteration 1 GLS step: Objective: NULLvarStruct parameters: power 0.3373199 NLS step: RSS = 0 model parameters:-0.799941 8.99983 -0.522623 212.314 iterations: 2 Convergence: params varStruct 1.172208 1.000000 ### After about 10 min hit cntrl C Warning messages: 1: In log(xmid) : NaNs produced 2: In log(xmid) : NaNs produced 3: In log(xmid) : NaNs produced ##################################################################### #### Data tdat<-data.frame(conc=c(0.00203,0.0061,0.0183,0.0549,0.165,0.494,1.48,4.44,13.3,40), response=c(12,-4,19,11,-5,-3,1,6,0,-8)) #### Self start function SSllogis <- selfStart(~ A + (B-A)/(1 + exp(scal*(log(x)-log(xmid)))), function(mCall, data, LHS) { #browser() xy <- sortedXyData(mCall[["x"]], LHS, data) if (nrow(xy) < 5) { stop("too few distinct input values to fit a four-parameter logistic") } rng <- range(xy$y) drng <- diff(rng) B <- rng[2] + 0.001 A <- rng[1] - 0.001 xy$prop <- log((B-xy$y)/(xy$y-A+0.001)) #(xy$y - rng[1] + 0.05 * drng)/(1.1 * drng) ir <- as.vector(coef(lm(prop ~ log(x), data = xy))) scal <- ir[2] xmid <- exp(-ir[1]/ir[2]) #pars <- as.vector(coef(nls(y ~ cbind(1, 1/(1 + exp((xmid - # x)/exp(lscal)))), data = xy, start = list(xmid = ir[1], # lscal = log(abs(ir[2]))), algorithm = "plinear"))) value <- c(A, B, xmid, scal) names(value) <- mCall[c("A", "B", "xmid", "scal")] value }, c("A", "B", "xmid", "scal")) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel