Dear John Nash Thank you very much for your inputs on how to fit a non-linear growth curve without running into "singular gradient". I wasn't aware of the package "nlmrt" which seems to provide very helpful functions, indeed. I'll try to figure out how nlxb() can be applied to my data (I am not sure yet wheter I can actually apply the same initial parameters for all of my plants) and also how plotting of the fitted curve works with nlxb(). The easy way of using predict(fit) did not work in this case.
In addition, I am still wondering if there is in fact no way of controlling the step factor in SSweibull. Best regards, Aline Frank [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.