Thank you Katharine. I am certain nprint is affecting my solution. Let me know how I can send the data (~300Kb). The script I used it:
ST1 <- ST04 SM1 <- SM08 SR1 <- SRch2 ST <- ST1 [!is.na(SR1)] SM <- SM1 [!is.na(SR1)] SR <- SR1 [!is.na(SR1)] q <- 0.90 p <- c("a"=-0.003, "b"=0.13, "c"=0.50, "E"=400) SRf <- function(ST, SM, a, b, c, E) { expr <- expression((a*SM^I(2)+b*SM+c)*exp(E*((1/(283.15-227.13))-(1/(ST+273.15-227.13))))) eval(expr) } optim.f <- function(p, ST, SM, SR, SRfcall) { res <- SR - do.call("SRfcall", c(list(ST = ST, SM = SM), as.list(p))) abserr <- abs(res) qnum <- quantile(abserr, probs=q, na.rm=TRUE) res[abserr > qnum]=0 res } SRmodel<- nls.lm(par = p, fn = optim.f, SRfcall = SRf, ST = ST, SM = SM, SR = SR, control = nls.lm.control(nprint=1)) summary(SRmodel) SRpred <- do.call(SRf, c(list(ST = ST1, SM = SM1), SRmodel$par)) plot(SR1~SRpred) a=c(0,2,4,6) b=c(0,2,4,6) lines(a,b,col=4) Changing the nprint argument to 0 (or removing nprint) results in different and completely wrong solutions. The same is true for this equivalent simplified script from your example. ST1 <- ST04 SM1 <- SM08 SR1 <- SRch2 ST <- ST1 [!is.na(SR1)] SM <- SM1 [!is.na(SR1)] SR <- SR1 [!is.na(SR1)] q <- 0.9 p <- list(a=-0.003, b=0.13, c=0.50, E=400) optim.f <- function(p, ST, SM, SR, q) { res <- SR - (p$a*SM^I(2)+p$b*SM+p$c)*exp(p$E*((1/(283.15-227.13))-(1/(ST+273.15-227.13)))) abserr <- abs(res) qnum <- quantile(abserr, probs=q, na.rm=TRUE) res[abserr > qnum] <- 0 res } SRmodel <- nls.lm(par = p, fn = optim.f, ST = ST, SM = SM, SR = SR, q = q, control = nls.lm.control(nprint=1)) summary(SRmodel) SRfun <- function(ST, SM, a, b, c, E) {(a*SM^I(2)+b*SM+c)*exp(E*((1/(283.15-227.13))-(1/(ST+273.15-227.13))))} SRpred <- do.call(SRfun, c(list(ST = ST1, SM = SM1), SRmodel$par)) plot(SR1~SRpred) a=seq(0,6,1) b=seq(0,6,1) lines(a,b,col=4) Here, however, I get the following additional error after summary(SRmodel): Error in param/se : non-numeric argument to binary operator although the solution is same as for the first script. Note that a q of 95 is OK, a q of 90 is not, but a q of 50 is OK again... To make your example reproducible you have to provide the data somehow; I am pretty sure nprint doesn't effect the solution, but if it does this would be a bug and I would appreciate a reproducible report. The example in nls.lm is a little complicated in order to show how to use an analytical expression for the gradient (possible to provide in the argument jac); since you don't need this, note that your residual function can be simplified into something along the lines of p <- list(a=-0.003, b=0.13, c=0.50, E=400) optim.f <- function(p, ST, SM, R, q) { res <- R -(p$a*SM^I(2)+p$b*SM+p$c)*exp(p$E*((1/(283.15-227.13))-(1/(ST+273.15-227.13)) abserr <- abs(res) qnum <- quantile(abserr, probs=q, na.rm=T) res[abserr > qnum] <- 0 res } Rmodel <- nls.lm(par = p, fn = optim.f, ST = ST, SM = SM, R = R, q = q) On Thu, 8 May 2008, Fernando Moyano wrote: > I solved the problem arising from using certain quantile values simply > by printing the iterations with the argument nprint. This gave me > correct estimates. I have no idea why. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/function-in-nls-argument-tp17108100p17145801.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.