Hello, I'm using the function nlminb of the package stats inside a loop and when the number of trials grows, R crashes and says "R GUI front-end has stopped working". Could you help me with this problem? I have try in versions 2.15.1,2.15.2 and 3.0.0.
> sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Galician_Spain.1252 LC_CTYPE=Galician_Spain.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=Galician_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=Galician_Spain.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base This is my code: u<-runif(3000) k=13 n=length(u) prob=vector(length=n) ro=vector(length=n) beta1=vector(length=n) g1=vector(length=n) sb1=vector(length=n) low=vector(length=n) tlow=vector(length=n) effects=vector(length=n) vb1=vector(length=n) AA=list() BB=list() nnI=list() library(stats) for (i in 1:n){ v=as.numeric(u<=u[i]) p=mean(v) A=vector(length=k) n1=n%/%k A<-sapply(1:k,function(m) A<-sum(v[((m-1)*n1+1):(m*n1)])) A[k]=sum(v[((k-1)*n1+1):n]) AA[[i]]<-A B=c(rep(n1,k-1),length(v[((k-1)*n1+1):n])) BB[[i]]<-B l1=vector(length=(length(A))) L1<-function(pe,rho){ for(j in 1:length(A)){ if(A[j]==0){l1[j]=0} else {l1[j]<-sum(log(pe+(-rho/(rho-1))*(0:(A[j]-1))))} } return(sum(l1))} l2=vector(length=(length(B-A))) L2<-function(pe,rho){ for(j in 1:length(B-A)){ if((B[j]-A[j])==0){l2[j]=0} else {l2[j]<-sum(log(1-pe+(-rho/(rho-1))*(0:(B[j]-A[j]-1))))} } return(sum(l2))} l3=vector(length=(length(B))) L3<-function(pe,rho){ for(j in 1:length(A)){ if(B[j]==0){l1[j]=0} else {l3[j]<-sum(log(1+(-rho/(rho-1))*(0:(B[j]-1))))} } return(sum(l3))} L<-function(pe,rho){ L<-L1(pe,rho)+L2(pe,rho)-L3(pe,rho) return(L) } Max<- function(x){ -L(x[1], x[2])} opt<-nlminb(c(0.01,0.01), Max,lower = rep(0.001,2), upper = rep(0.999,2),control=list(rel.tol=1e-6)) prob[i]=opt$par[1] ro[i]=opt$par[2] } Thanks, Irene Castro Conde. [[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.