[R] step size truncated out of bounds

[Judith Trunschke]

Dear helpers,

in course of my master thesis I trie to program a GLM to model the  
number of seeds produced per flower relates to the time they were  
exposed to pollinators (categorical with two levels), the altitude of  
population (categorical with two levels) and the species (categorical  
with six levels).
Since I have lots of zeros in my data and detected overdispersion when  
simply using family=poisson, I choose the quasi family. With the  
according default link option the homogeneity of variance in the  
residuals is violated and so I tried to set link=sqrt and the  
variance=mu^2. This combination should work, but unfortunately it does  
not. I first got the warning message to specify starting values which  
I hopefully solved right and I got the summary output and residuals  
plots. But the anova output still do not work by printing the  
following warning message: step size truncated out of bounds. I  
searched in the R helping mail list and also tried to contact people  
that once had similar problems, but got no reply.
I would be glad if anybody cound explain what happens, and point out a  
solution for me to get the anova(model) output.

Thank you a lot in advance.

Sincerely,

Judith Trunschke