Katja Hebestreit <katja.hebestreit <at> uni-muenster.de> writes:
> > Hello, > > optim hangs for some reason when called within the betareg function > (from the betareg package). > > In this special case, the arguments which are passed to optim cause > never ending calculations. > > I uploaded the arguments passed to optim on: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ud507gbpt3gkbcp/optim_arguments.RData > > I appreciate any help. > Cheers, > Katja > Hmm, it works fine for me (thank you for the very reproducible example!) L <- load("/tmp/optim_arguments.RData") arglist <- setNames(lapply(L,get),L) do.call(optim,arglist) Results: $par mean.(Intercept) mean.groupcontrol mean.gendermale precision1 precision2 -2.522996e+00 -5.018542e-01 6.197797e-13 4.445938e+00 2.871008e+01 $value [1] 274.5367 $counts function gradient 552 87 $convergence [1] 0 $message NULL > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2012-12-14 r61321) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [snip] attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] betareg_3.0-2 flexmix_2.3-8 lmtest_0.9-30 modeltools_0.2-19 [5] multcomp_1.2-15 sandwich_2.2-9 stats4_2.16.0 tools_2.16.0 > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] betareg_3.0-2 flexmix_2.3-8 lmtest_0.9-30 > modeltools_0.2-19 > [5] multcomp_1.2-15 sandwich_2.2-9 stats4_2.15.3 > tools_2.15.3 > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
