Thank you Sarah and Marc for your fast and nice response. Apology for didn't include all information.
I have a input file like following: gene1 18 15 13 13 16 9 20 24 gene2 15 8 8 7 0 12 18 4 gene3 10 9 8 12 9 11 12 12 gene4 4 0 4 3 0 5 0 0 gene5 0 1 0 0 1 5 1 0 gene6 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 gene7 0 4 0 2 2 2 0 0 gene8 4 4 7 3 0 6 6 12 gene9 11 6 13 10 13 7 12 9 gene10 6 3 6 3 4 7 6 3 I am using following R code to compare the difference between the 1st 4 numbers against 2nd 4 numbers: library(MASS) library(coin) suppressPackageStartupMessages(suppressWarnings(library(tcltk))) library(qvalue) library(plyr) dat = read.table("test",col.names=c("gene","b1","b2","b3","b4","c1","c2","c3","c4")) index=(apply(dat[,-1],1,sum)>0) data = dat[index,] group=c(1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0) n=nrow(data) result=NULL for (i in 1:n){ print(i) y=as.numeric(data[i,-1]) if (all((y-mean(y))==0)) result=rbind(result,c(0,0,0,1)) else { fit=glm.nb(y~group) result=rbind(result,summary(fit)$coef[2,]) } } qval = qvalue(result[,4]) fdr=0.1 index=(qval$qvalues<fdr) dat.result = data[index,] write.table(dat.result,file="test_result",row.names=F,quote=F) If you use this input file and code, would reproduce the same error: Loading required package: methods Loading required package: survival Loading required package: splines Loading required package: mvtnorm Loading required package: modeltools Loading required package: stats4 Attaching package: plyr The following object is masked from package:modeltools: empty [1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 [1] 4 [1] 5 [1] 6 Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed Calls: glm.nb -> as.vector -> theta.ml In addition: Warning messages: 1: In theta.ml(Y, mu, sum(w), w, limit = control$maxit, trace = control$trace > : iteration limit reached 2: In theta.ml(Y, mu, sum(w), w, limit = control$maxit, trace = control$trace > : iteration limit reached Execution halted So might be the error was in 6th line, not the line I pasted before (5th line)? Sorry about that. Thanks. Daofeng On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Daofeng Li <lid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear R Community, > > > > I have encountered a problem while using the R function glm.nb. > > The code that produce the error was following two lines: > > > > group=c(1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0) > > fit=glm.nb(y~group) > > > > While the y contains 8 sets of number like: > > gene275 0 1 0 0 1 5 1 0 > > > > Error message: > > > > Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { : > > missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed > > Calls: glm.nb -> as.vector -> theta.ml > > In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the > > first 50) > > Execution halted > > > > > > Information of my system: > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) > > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > > locale: > > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > Does anyone happen to have some hit on how to solve this? > > Appreciate for any response. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Daofeng > > > There is something wrong with your actual 'y' or 'group' that is not > evident from the above info: > > > group <- c(1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0) > y <- c(0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 5, 1, 0) > > > require(MASS) > Loading required package: MASS > > > glm.nb(y ~ group) > > Call: glm.nb(formula = y ~ group, init.theta = 1.711564307, link = log) > > Coefficients: > (Intercept) group > 0.5596 -1.9459 > > Degrees of Freedom: 7 Total (i.e. Null); 6 Residual > Null Deviance: 10.23 > Residual Deviance: 6.848 AIC: 25.25 > > > Check str(y) and str(group) > > You should also be sure to note in your posts when you are using a > function from a non-base package, in this case MASS, which is not indicated > in your sessionInfo() above, so something is amiss there as well. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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