Dear statistician experts,

Sorry if this is a trivial question, or the old same question (i don't know
what is the efficient key word for this issue).
In order to understand the calculation of parameter of logistic regression,
 I did an exercise through spreadsheet following the procedural example
from a literature, or the available spreadsheet (with calculation formula).
I ended up with infinity (divided by zero) when the odd ratio is exactly 1
(FD=12) or invalid number when odd ratio is zero (MFD = 0) after log.
I am wondering  how R through GLM function (particularly logit or logistic
regression) treats the odds ratios or log odd ratios that is exatcly one or
zeros.

The sample data is like this:
#HH Fsize FD
1 1.29472 0
2 1.6184 0
3 2.4276 1
4 2.4276 2
5 20.23 2
6 1.6184 3
7 1.820 3
8 0.4046 3
9 6.069 4
10 2.6299 4
11 0.72828 5
12 2.4276 5
13 6.069 7
14 4.8552 7
15 2.32645 7
16 1.6184 8
17 1.0115 8
18 1.0115 8
19 5.2598 9
20 2.023 10
21 0.6069 10
22 1.2138 11
23 0.8092 11
24 1.4161 11
25 0.6069 11
26 3.440 11
27 1.2138 12
28 1.2138 12
29 0.4046 12
30 1.2138 12

Fsize is the farm size (acre or hectare).  Food deficit (FD) is the number
of months (last year from the survey took place) that an household had
bought food-grains (minimum = 0 month, maximum = 12 months or whole year
deficit).
Even though I "jitter"-ed the minimum or maximum FD value only (eg.
FD=0+1e-6 or FD=12-1e-6), nothing changed to the result.

The formula I used is like this:
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glm(FD ~ Fsize, data = subFS)
--
Coefficients:
(Intercept)        Fsize
     7.7913      -0.3092

Degrees of Freedom: 29 Total (i.e. Null);  28 Residual
Null Deviance:      463
Residual Deviance: 425.5        AIC: 170.7
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I appreciate for any clarification.

Best wishes,
Wim

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