On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear, R experts.
Does anybody have experience with 'optim' function?
Yes.
I have an error message as the following.
Error in optim(transcoefs, fn = hfdeviance, gr = hfdeviance.grad, method
= BFGS, :
initial value in vmmin is not finite
I want to make a comment when this happen.
Function 'fn' can return 'NA' or 'Inf' if the function cannot be
evaluated at the supplied value, but the initial value must have a
computable finite value of 'fn'. (Except for method 'L-BFGS-B'
where the values should always be finite.)
It's your error so you can control it (by not making the error).
Is there way I can put *my* message after this error occur?
You can use try/tryCatch and similar constructs. But it would be better
to use a valid starting value as optim asks, and you can so that by
calling hfdeviance(transcoefs) and checking it is finite.
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595
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