[R-sig-ME] About lmer function

[Douglas Bates]

I suggest sending queries like this to the
R-SIG-Mixed-Models at R-project.org mailing list, which I am taking the
liberty of cc:'ing on this reply.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 AM,  <Edgar.Torres at ifremer.fr> wrote:
> Hello professor Bates,
>
> I have had problems with the function lmer in the package lme4, I'm trying
> to run a GLMM with a poisson distribution. But I receive the warning message
>
> Warning message: In mer_finalize(ans) : iteration limit reached without
> convergence (9)
>
> I tried to put more iteration with control=list(maxIter=500), but actually
> the program justo run 300 times, as the default.
>
> the code that I wrote is this:
>
> GLMM1 <- lmer(OPTOT ~ fYEAR + (fYEAR | BOAT), data=DATA1, family=poisson,
> na.action=na.omit, control=list(maxIter=500,msVerbose=T), verbose=T)

Ben Bolker contributed a patch for this that Martin Maechler
incorporated in a new release of lme4.  The release has been uploaded
to CRAN but not yet installed (I think the CRAN maintainers are taking
a well-deserved vacation).

>
> I am not really sure that the way that I wrote the control statement is the
> right one.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Edgar TORRES
> Phd student in Ecosystems
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