[R] gnlsControl
Dieter Menne
dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Fri Aug 4 08:46:58 CEST 2006
Daniel Coleman <coleman.daniel <at> gene.com> writes:
>
> When I run gnls I get the error:
>
> Error in nls(y ~ cbind(1, 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/exp(lscal)))), data = xy, :
>
> step factor 0.000488281 reduced below 'minFactor' of 0.000976563
>
> My first thought was to decrease minFactor but gnlsControl does not contain
> minFactor nor nlsMinFactor (see below). It does however contain nlsMaxIter
> and nlsTol which I assume are the analogs of maxiter and tol in nls.control.
> I would be happy to hear from anyone who has an idea on what parameters in
> gnlsControl to change to get convergence.
Try nlsTol with a large value, e.g. 0.3. If I am really desparate, I put the
gnls in a try() structure, halving nlsTol until it fails, and take the last
successful.
Dieter
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