If you are not tied to that model the SSasymp() model in R could be considered and is easy to fit:
# to plot points in order o <- order(cl$Area) cl.o <- cl[o, ] fm <- nls(Retention ~ SSasymp(Area, Asym, R0, lrc), cl.o) summary(fm) plot(Retention ~ Area, cl.o) lines(fitted(fm) ~ Area, cl.o, col = "red") ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.