Hi, the following R lines work fine in R 2.4.0 alpha (and older R versions), but not in R 2.4.0 beta (details below):
library(drc) # to load the dataset 'PestSci' library(nlme) ## Starting values sv <- c(0.328919, 1.956121, 0.097547, 1.642436, 0.208924) ## No error m1 <- nlme(SLOPE ~ c + (d-c)/(1+exp(b*(log(DOSE)-log(e)))), fixed = list(b+c+d+e~1), random = d~1|CURVE, start = sv[c(2,3,4,5)], data = PestSci) ## Error: attempt to select more than one element m2 <- nlme(SLOPE ~ c + (d-c)/(1+exp(b*(log(DOSE)-log(e)))), fixed = list(b~HERBICIDE, c+d+e~1), random = d~1|CURVE, start = sv, data = PestSci) Output from sessionInfo() for R 2.4.0 alpha R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_CTYPE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_MONETARY=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C; LC_TIME=Danish_Denmark.1252 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base" other attached packages: nlme drc "3.1-75" "1.0-1" Output from sessionInfo() for R 2.4.0 beta R version 2.4.0 beta (2006-09-24 r39497) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_CTYPE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_MONETARY=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C; LC_TIME=Danish_Denmark.1252 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base" other attached packages: nlme drc "3.1-76" "1.0-1" Christian ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list 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.