You probably want to wrap the nls(...) in a 'try' or 'tryCatch' function. Scott
Scott Sherrill-Mix Department of Microbiology University of Pennsylvania 402B Johnson Pavilion 3610 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076 Phone: 215-573-3141 On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Liao, Hongsheng<hl...@odu.edu> wrote: > I am trying to fit a logistic model to my 10 year data (1999-2008) by year. > Codes like below: > > Year <- c(1999: 2008) > for(y in 1:length(year)) { > file.input <- paste("C:\\", year[y], "\\data.csv", sep="") > table <- read.csv(file=fileinput, header=TRUE, as.is=TRUE, na.strings=c("")) > initial <- getInitial(percent ~ SSlogis(age, Asym, xmid, scal), data = > table) > fm1 <- nls(percent ~ SSlogis(age, Asym, xmid, scal), data = table) > summary <- summary(fm1) > parameters <- summary$parameters > file.output <- paste("C:\\", year[y], "\\parameters.csv", sep="") > write.csv(parameters, file=file.output, row.names=FALSE) > } > > However, when one of 10 years can't be converged, such as 2000, the loop > stops in that year (2000) even though the rest years (2001 to 2008) can be > converged. I would really appreciate if someone helps me on how to force the > loop function to finish all 10 rounds even when errors occur due to no > convergences for some of years. > > > Hongsheng (Hank) Liao > Lab Manager > Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology > Old Dominion University > Phone: 757-683-4571 > > > > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.