[R] vglm

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi,

My guess is that vglm() cannot find "Loss" because you have not set
the data argument.  Something like:

 fit = vglm(Loss ~ 1, pareto1(location = alpha), trace = TRUE, crit =
"c", data = mydata)

out to work if "Loss" is a variable in the object "mydata"

HTH,

Josh

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, choonhong ang <angie.bearman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> could anybody help me to understand what is this error means ?
>
>
> mydata=read.table("C:/Documents and
> Settings/angieb/Desktop/CommercialGL/cl_ilf_claimdata.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",")
>> names(mydata)
> [1] "ILFTable"    "liabLimit"   "AnnAggLimit" "DedAmt"      "Loss"
> "TIL"
>> fit=vglm(Loss~1,pareto1(location=alpha),trace=TRUE,crit="c")
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "Loss" not found
>
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Joshua Wiley
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