[R] Singular matrix

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Sat Oct 12 07:46:26 CEST 2013


You have posted neither code nor your data, contrary to what the
posting guide asks.

 How do you expect anyone to help?

Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Aya Anas <aanas at feps.edu.eg> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am using the DEoptim package. My optimization syntax has three decesion
> variables. If I increase the upper bound of the first or third variables,I
> get an error related to singularity of a matrix. However, I need to
> increase the upper bound of the first and third variables. The true bounds
> for the the three variables are (0,+inf), (0,1) and (0,+inf). However, The
> syntax gives errors even when I set the upper bounds  for the first and
> third variables =10 only . The syntax runs without errors, when I set the
> upper bound <="5" for the third variable for example. The first variable
> even needs a smaller upper bound to run succesfully. I don't know how could
> I handle this problem?could anybody help me to increase the bound of the
> first and third variables to a reasonable large number, without having this
> error?
>
> "*The syntax is attached*".
>
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> Aya
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