Dear all, we are writing a wrapper for the nls function in library stats. We are having a problem with one of the arguments (weightsArgument) which seems not to reach nls even if we explicitly assign it in the function call. We are attaching the simplest code reproducing the error and the output calling the wrapper and calling nls directly. We are using R 2.9.0
library(stats) wrappernls <- function(modelArgument,dataArgument,startArgument,weightsArgument) { F.mod <-try(nls(formula=modelArgument,data=dataArgument,start=startArgument, weights=weightsArgument, control=nls.control(maxiter = 500, tol = 1e-05, minFactor = 1/102400)),silent=TRUE) return(F.mod) } F<-c(0.4091867,0.4060938,0.4032078,0.4089090,0.4138126,0.4183426,0.4073004,0.4145457,0.4137699, 0.4161127,0.4228770,0.4231176,0.4295189,0.4290417,0.4348761,0.4517475,0.4899147,0.5463731, 0.6273890,0.7458752,0.8960531,1.0280455,1.1753147,1.3122100,1.4370375,1.5610782,1.6666418, 1.7771591,1.8853868,1.9628042,2.0407750,2.1179830,2.1647203,2.2147800,2.2848194,2.3442066, 2.3706858,2.4121310,2.4508073,2.4767710) skipCycles=3; y00<-max(F); a0<- min(F)-y00; x00<-which.min(abs(F-(a0/2+y00))); derivativeAtc0= (F[x00+1]-F[x00-1])/2 b0=-4*x00*derivativeAtc0/a0 w<-c(rep(0,skipCycles), rep(1,length(F)-skipCycles)) x=1:length(F); modelArg=F ~ y0+D*x+a/(1+(x/x0)^b) dataArg=data.frame(F,x) startArg=list(y0 = y00, a=a0, x0=x00, b=b0, D=0) weightsArg=w F.modWrapper <- wrappernls(modelArg,dataArg,startArg,weightsArg) F.mod <- nls(formula=modelArg,data=dataArg,start=startArg,weights=weightsArg, control=nls.control(maxiter = 500, tol = 1e-05, minFactor = 1/102400)) *Output in R:* > F.mod Nonlinear regression model model: F ~ y0 + D * x + a/(1 + (x/x0)^b) data: dataArg y0 a x0 b D 2.891357 -2.434011 25.604522 5.880144 -0.007322 weighted residual sum-of-squares: 0.02664 Number of iterations to convergence: 8 Achieved convergence tolerance: 3.517e-06 > F.modWrapper [1] "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'weightsArgument' not found\n" attr(,"class") [1] "try-error" Any help about this will be welcome. Thanks [[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.