[R] error message

[Peter Dalgaard]

forkusam <forkusam at yahoo.com> writes:

>  Hi,
> Can someone please tell me what such an error message
> could mean. i.e where a problem must have arised.
> 
> Error in uniroot(function(n) eval(p.body) - power,
> c(2, 1e+07)) : 
>         f() values at end points not of opposite sign

Looks like the innards of one of the power calculations, finding n to
achieve a given power. You'd likely get an error like that if the
power is not between 0 and 1, but how about telling us what you were
trying to do?

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