[R-sig-ME] Problems-running-glmmadmb

[Amal Dahounto]

Dear Ben,
many thanks for your reply.
Kind regards,

2018-07-25 19:41 GMT+02:00 Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com>:

> It's hard to know without a reproducible example: the most likely
> situation is that your data are a little more complex than your model
> can handle, and that the optimizer is failing (or, more mildly, it's
> finding a solution but the variance-covariance matrix is not positive
> definite, meaning it can't reliably compute standard errors for the
> parameters).  Your two choices:
>
> (1) provide a lot more detail about your problem and see if you can
> find someone with the time and energy to reproduce the problem and see
> what's going wrong
> (2) try using the glmmTMB package instead; it's faster, more stable,
> and more or less does all the things that glmmADMB does. For the model
> you have written above, glmer.nb from the lme4 package should also
> work ...
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 1:18 PM C. AMAL D. GLELE <altessedac2 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, dear all.
> > when running the model
> > "mymodel<-glmmadmb(response~var1+var2+var3,random=~1|var3,
> family="nbinom",data=mydata)"
> > I'm getting the successives following error messages:
> > step1:
> > error message: cannot change the working directory
> > then, I've set save.dir to "tmp
> > step2:
> > I run again mymodel with the argument save.dir set to "tmp", I get the
> > error message
> > "Couldn't find STD file
> > ...... maxfn 500 maxph 5 noinit had statut1
> > then, I navigate to admbControl page and rewrite mymodel as
> > mymodel<-glmmadmb(response~var1+var2+var3,random=~1|var3,
> family="nbinom",data=mydata,
> > admb.opts=admbControl(impSamp=0,maxfn=500,imaxfn=500,maxph=
> 500,noinit=FALSE,shess=FALSE),data=transmpics_ext,save.dir="tmp")
> > after this, I still getting STD file not found message error like
> > "
> > Error in glmmadmb(response~var1+var2+var3,random=~1|  :
> >   The function maximizer failed (couldn't find STD file) Troubleshooting
> > steps include (1) run with 'save.dir' set and inspect output files; (2)
> > change run parameters:
> >
> > see '?admbControl'
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c
> > "C:/Users/Coliasso/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/glmmADMB/
> bin/windows64/glmmadmb.exe"
> > -maxfn 500 -maxph 500' had status 1
> > "
> > Additional informations
> > 1) I'm using R version 3.4.3
> > 2) I've installed glmmADMB package from a Package archive File  on PC
> > In advance, many thanks for your helps.
> > Kind regards,
> >
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