Thank you David for taking time to answer my not so helpful question.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:15 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Sep 26, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Karl Neergaard <karlneerga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I received an error message while trying to use family=scat in the GAM > > package. The models were working fine yesterday. > > The problem is not with my data seeing as the gaussian distribution is > > working fine. > > > > mod=gam(RT~s(a) + s(b), data=dat, family=gaussian) > > mod=gam(RT~s(a) + s(b), data=dat, family=scat) > > > > Might this problem be unrelated to GAM specifically, and to my R > > configuration? > > I have removed the gam package and re-installed it several times to no > > avail. > > The scat function is in package mgcv. It also has a `gam` function and is > generally thought of as the "standard" approach for estimating generalized > additive models. > > > > > > Thank you for any assistance, > > Karl > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.