Re: [R] an incredibly trivial question about nls

2014-07-01 Thread Erin Hodgess
Thank you to all. I had actually found the summary and trotted that out. Just had not gotten back to the list. Thanks again! Sincerely, Erin On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Beauty -- or obscurity -- is in the eyes of the beholder. But I leave > your objections to stand

Re: [R] an incredibly trivial question about nls

2014-07-01 Thread Rolf Turner
In direct contrast to what Bert says, I think this is a very reasonable (and non-trivial) question. The problem results from Gurus structuring the functions that they write in such a way that they are totally opaque to anyone but the ultra-cognoscenti. What is gained by not having things s

Re: [R] an incredibly trivial question about nls

2014-07-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Hello R People: > > I'm having a forest/trees location problem with the output of nls. > > If I save the output to an object, and print the object, it shows, amongst > other things, the residual sum of squares. I would like to get that. > > Ho

Re: [R] an incredibly trivial question about nls

2014-07-01 Thread Bert Gunter
1. Why? What do you think it tells you? (The number of parameters in a NONlinear model is probably not what you think it is). 2. ?deviance 3. You've been posting all this time and still didn't try stats:::print.nls ?? -- which is where you would find the answer. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Gene

[R] an incredibly trivial question about nls

2014-07-01 Thread Erin Hodgess
Hello R People: I'm having a forest/trees location problem with the output of nls. If I save the output to an object, and print the object, it shows, amongst other things, the residual sum of squares. I would like to get that. However, when I look at names or str of the object, I can't find the