[R] nls problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Weijie Cai wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I tried to use nls to do some nonlinear least square fitting on my data with
> 340 observations and 10 variables, but as I called nls() function, I got
> this error message:
> Error in qr.qty(QR, resid) : 'qr' and 'y' must have the same number of rows
> Then I traced back a little bit into nls() function, the error seemed to
> happen when calling nlsiter() internal function, but I did not find any clue
> calling qr.qty() function in nls.c. I searched around mailing list, there
> were some posts about this message but none of them were clearly solved. I
> wonder if anybody solved this problem? (Bate's example worked, though)

Please don't quess.  qr.qty(QR, resid) appears in nlsModel, and 
traceback() would tell you where the error can from.

If you study the posting guide you should be able to come up with a 
report we can help you with, e.g. by giving a reproducible example, giving 
your R version ....

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