You have not specified a nonlinear formula. There are no parameters to estimate in the formula you provide, y1~dist. What is the nonlinear relation you are trying to fit? Look at the help file for nls to see some examples worked.
?nls Jean Gyanendra Pokharel <gyanendra.pokha...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/01/2012 10:27:23 AM: > > Hi all, > I got following problem in fitting the data. > Any kind of suggestions are welcome > > > > beta <- 3.5 > > d <- seq(0.1,62.5,0.1) > > y <- exp(-beta*d) > > y1 <- y > > x <- read.table("epidist.txt", header = TRUE) > > data.nls <- as.data.frame(cbind(y1,x)) > > #attach(data.nls) > > nls.fit <- nls(y1~dist,data.nls) > Error in cll[[1L]] : object of type 'symbol' is not subsettable > > > Best [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.