[R] coxph error

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Tue Feb 10 16:15:58 CET 2004


Take a look at ?try and see the thread on this list of yesterday about
how to use try to skip errors within a loop.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:59:10AM -0500, Fredrick Schumacher wrote:
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> I am using a 'for' loop to run a number of different models (stratified
> by different variables) with coxph.   The data becomes sparse when some
> strata are used causing the model to become unstable.  The following
> error occurs and the analysis is terminated.
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> >Error in fitter(X, Y, strats, offset, init, control, weights = weights,
> : 
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>       (converted from warning) Loglik converged before variable  1 ;
> beta may be infinite. 
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> Is there any way to have R skip the models without convergence and apply
> 'NA' to the results, then go on to the other models?
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> The same situation occurs with windows and unix versions.
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> Thanks,
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> Fred
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