[R] newbie nls question

[Simon Blomberg]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 16:56 -0600, Ranney, Steven wrote:
> I'm tyring to fit a relatively simple nls model to some data, but keep coming up against the same error (code follows):
> 
> Oto=nls(Otolith ~ Linf*(1-exp(-k(AGE-to))), 
>     data = ages, 
>     start = list(Linf=1000, k=0.1, to=0.1), 
>     trace = TRUE) 


Try putting a * in after the k in the formula.

Simon.

> 
> The error message I keep getting is "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : could not find function "k"".  I've used this line of code for other nls models (with different data, parameter estimates, etc.), but have never gotten this error.  The data is 
> 
> AGE,Otolith,Scale
> 1,207.1052632,207.1052632
> 2,329.962963,332.7586207
> 3,401.9473684,406
> 4,422,413.1111111
> 5,452.6785714,458.34375
> 6,510.75,533
> 7,477,674
> 8,643,704
> 9,,615
> 10,695.5,
> 12,615,
> 
> Are the missing values (e.g., no value for Otolith, AGE 9) having an effect?  I am using Tinn-R as an editor  
> 
> I'm new to R, trying to get away from Rcmdr (though it has been helpful), and still trying to learn the language with the aid of several books on the R.  A search of the R Archive did not prove fruitful.
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> SR
> 
> Steven H. Ranney
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