Which suggests the OP should verify that the data in "...$Frequency" is the data he expects to be there.
Rui Barradas wrote > Hello, > > I can't reproduce your error: > > windfreq <- > c(1351L, 2147L, 3317L, 4378L, 5527L, 6667L, 7865L, 8970L, 9987L, > 10907L, 11905L, 12642L, 131000L, 14983L, 15847L, 16842L, 17757L, > 18698L, 19632L, 20626L, 21599L, 22529L, 23325L, 24391L, 25356L, > 26267L, 27230L, 28223L, 29190L, 30142L, 31124L, 32104L, 3397L, > 3437L, 3562L, 3646L, 3742L, 3824L, 399L, 4013L, 419L, 425L, 432L > > library(MASS) > > fitdistr(windfreq, "weibull") > > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > Em 28-10-2013 12:07, kmmoon100 escreveu: >> Hello everyone, >> >> This is Kangmin. >> >> I am trying to produce shape and scale of my wind data. My data is based >> on >> wind speed frequency with 1km/hr increment. data is described below. >> >> Windspeed (km/h) Frequency >> 1 351 >> 2 147 >> 3 317 >> 4 378 >> 5 527 >> 6 667 >> 7 865 >> 8 970 >> 9 987 >> 10 907 >> 11 905 >> 12 642 >> 13 1000 >> 14 983 >> 15 847 >> 16 842 >> 17 757 >> 18 698 >> 19 632 >> 20 626 >> 21 599 >> 22 529 >> 23 325 >> 24 391 >> 25 356 >> 26 267 >> 27 230 >> 28 223 >> 29 190 >> 30 142 >> 31 124 >> 32 104 >> 33 97 >> 34 37 >> 35 62 >> 36 46 >> 37 42 >> 38 24 >> 39 9 >> 40 13 >> 41 9 >> 42 5 >> 43 2 >> >> R codes to calculate shape and scale are described below: >> >> Pine.windfrequency.4weeks<-read.table("C:/Users/kmoon/Documents/Pine_frequency_4weeks.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",") >> fitdistr(Pine.windfrequency.4weeks$Frequency, densfun="weibull") >> >> I have got an error message when I was using 'fitdistr' function >> >> "Error in fitdistr(Pine.windfrequency.4weeks$Frequency, densfun = >> "weibull") >> : >> optimization failed" >> >> Please help me calculating shape and scale of weibull distribution. >> >> And please understand that I am not an user familiar with R program but I >> am >> really trying to make my analysis work on R! >> >> Thank you!!! >> >> Kangmin. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Optimization-failed-in-fitdistr-Weibull-distribution-tp4679167.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@ > 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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > 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. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Optimization-failed-in-fitdistr-Weibull-distribution-tp4679178p4679351.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.