[R] NLS Question

[Redding, Matthew]

Hi list members,
I'm (gradually) coming up to speed on  using R.  SO far I am very much
enjoying the learning process.
I mentioned the software to a colleague at another research organisation,
and he was interested.

He had the following question:

Can the following non-linear fit be carried out (I suppose by NLS),
y~(x^a)*(w^b), where a and b are the parameters and x and w are variables?
i.e. the formula has two independent variables.

Does the software do this sort of thing, or will it only handle one
independent variable?  I gave it a go but did not get an answer out of
it....the response being
2590.046 :  5.0 0.4 
Error in qr(attr(rhs, "gradient")) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call
(arg 1)

Before I persevere any further, does NLS have this capability, or am I on
the wrong track?

Thanks, 

Matt Redding

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