[R] [FORGED] ERROR in make.link(link)

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Thu Mar 17 22:11:29 CET 2016


On 18/03/16 09:47, CHIRIBOGA Xavier wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I am using R version 3.1.3. I want to run this model:
>
> m1<-glmer(hours~soil*volatile+(1|replicate),  data=data,    family=Gamma(link = "inv"))
>
>
> But I got this:
>
> Erreur within make.link(link) : 'inv' link not recognised
>
>
> What to do in this case?

What to do?  Use the correct syntax! Your call should be:

     family=Gamma(link="inverse")

The name of the link must be specified *completely*; partial matching is 
not used, for fairly obvious reasons.

Actually you could just do "family=Gamma" since "inverse" is the 
*default* link.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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