gam bug with poisson family? (PR#2234)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

aukema@entomology.wisc.edu writes:

> Hello, I am relatively new to R (~6 months) so I hate to bother you if this is
> not a bug.  

Please use r-help rather than r-bugs then...

> I tried a GAM with a poisson family link, and I'm getting an error
> message that I do not understand.  Many apologies if this is user inexperience.
> Thanks, BHA.
> 
> > library(mgcv)
> This is mgcv 0.8.1
> > lcgam <- gam(lc ~ s(Day), family=poisson, data=lcset)
> Warning messages: 
> 1: `Machine' is deprecated.
> Use `.Machine' instead.
> See ?Deprecated. 

It's just a warning that gam is using old coding style that is about
to become defunct (specifically gam.fit is using Machine()$double.eps
where the preferred form is .Machine$double.eps). It's harmless but
mgcv 0.8-6 has removed the problem.

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