[R] lme, nlsList, nlsList.selfStart

Patrick Giraudoux patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr
Fri Feb 17 10:47:21 CET 2006


Spencer,

Thanks for the hint. I did not dare to bore people with the full data 
set and though that this kind of error may have been trivial and often 
encountered (so leading to a short answer), even though I did not see 
related messages on the r-help list. I already did the checks suggested 
before posting, and was aware of the possible confusion between 1 and l 
(actually the variable names were not given by myself).

It seems that the trouble comes when the grouping variable "Organ" is 
used. The best (?) I can do  is to dump the data.frame here below.

With this example, one can get exactly the same errors:

mymod2<-nls(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) * 
(exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe)),
    data=mydata2,
    start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
    )
   
... works well!!!

but we get then:

mymod3<-nlsList(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) * 
(exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe)) | Organ,
    data=mydata2,
    start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
    )
Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
extranames,  :
        variable lengths differ
Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
extranames,  :
        variable lengths differ
Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
extranames,  :
        variable lengths differ


 > mymod4<-nlsList(SSfol,data=mydata2)
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found


Sorry and apologise for the inconvenience met,

Kind regards,

Patrick



# data.frame just to copy and past into R

"mydata2" <-
structure(list(Tps = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3,
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6,
6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9,
9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 14,
14, 14, 14, 14, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 20, 20, 20, 20, 25, 28, 29,
50, 50, 50, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136,
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0.0622331866694357, 0.215645168287442, 0, 0.859343941945178,
0.0500810300696456, 0, 0, 0.0628746592609754), Organ = 
structure(as.integer(c(1,
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2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
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2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
2, 2, 2, 2, 2)), .Label = c("Carc", "TD", "Foie"), class = c("ordered",
"factor"))), .Names = c("Tps", "Conc", "Organ"), row.names = c("1",
"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13",
"14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24",
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"272", "273", "274", "275", "276", "277", "278", "279", "280",
"281", "282", "283", "284", "285", "286", "287", "288", "289",
"290", "291", "292", "293", "294", "295", "296", "297", "298",
"299", "300"), class = c("nfnGroupedData", "nfGroupedData", "groupedData",
"data.frame"), formula = quote(Conc ~ Tps | Organ), FUN = function (x)
max(x, na.rm = TRUE), order.groups = TRUE)




Spencer Graves a écrit :
>       Regarding the following:           
>
> > mymod3<-nlsList(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) *
> > (exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe)),
> >      data=mydata,
> >      start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
> > Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras,
> > extranames,  :
> >         variable lengths differ
>
>       This example is NOT self contained and is entirely too 
> complicated for me to try to replicate it myself in a reasonable 
> period of time.  I will therefore ask one short question:  Are all the 
> variable names in the "nlsList" call either columns of "mydata" or 
> parameters to be estimated and therefore spelled out in "start"?  If I 
> were you, I'd check this all very carefully, being especially careful 
> about the distinction between "lCl" and "lC1", in particular.
>
>       If you'd like further help with this, I suggest you try to find 
> the simplest possible example that generates problem you don't 
> understand, then try to recast that example into one that is 
> completely self contained, either a data set in the standard R or nlme 
> distribution  or numbers that one can generate with a very few lines 
> of code.  If you use random numbers, please "set.seed", to increase 
> your confidence that someone else will see what you see.  (And please 
> review the posting guide! "www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html".  
> Doing so may increase your chances of getting more useful information 
> more quickly.)
>
>       spencer graves
>
> Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> I am trying to fit a model using nlsList() using alternately a 
>> SSfol() selfstart function or its developped equivalent formulae.
>>
>> This preliminary trial works well
>>
>> mydata<-groupedData(Conc~Tps|Organ,data=mydata)
>> mymod1<-nls(Conc~SSfol(Dose,Tps,lKe,lKa,lCl),data=mydata)
>>
>> as well as a developped form:
>>
>> mymod2<-nls(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) * 
>> (exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe)),
>>     data=mydata,
>>     start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
>>     )
>>
>> However when trying to fit the model with nlsList, I get:
>>
>> mymod3<-nlsList(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) * 
>> (exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe)),
>>      data=mydata,
>>      start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
>>      )
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>>
>> Or specifying  the grouping factor explicitely:
>>
>> mymod3<-nlsList(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) * 
>> (exp(-exp(lKe)*Tps)-exp(-exp(lKa)*Tps)) /(exp(lKa)-exp(lKe))|Organ,
>>      data=mydata,
>>      start= c(lKe=-2.77, lKa=-1.41, lCl=-1.13)
>>      )
>>
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, 
>> extranames,  :
>>         variable lengths differ
>>
>>
>> I cannot find out why the grouping factor cannot be used (it has the 
>> same length as the other variables...)
>>
>> Another strange thing occurs: in the example given in the help of 
>> nlsList.selfstart, the following command works  well:
>>
>>  fm1 <- nlsList(SSasympOff, CO2)
>>
>> However its seemingly equivalent applied to the case above fails:
>>
>> mymod4<-nlsList(SSfol,data=mydata)
>> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found
>> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found
>> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "input" not found
>>
>>
>> Any hint/suggestion appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Patrick Giraudoux
>>
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