There may be a good reason for this, but under R 2.5.1 (Windows XP, Suse Linux)
> glm(c(0,.5)~1,quasi(link=logit)) Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 4) whereas the same code works under R 2.1.1. The problem (in 2.5.1) is a -Inf in the pseudodata `z' in glm.fit, as a result of a `-Inf' in eta, which is in turn generated by `mustart <- y' and `logit(mustart)'. In 2.1.1 the line `mustart <- y + 0.1 * (y == 0)' is what avoids the problem. A possible fix might be to set elements of `good' to FALSE for non-finite `eta', for the first fit iteration only, of course. Is it worth fixing? I found this after someone reported a problem with mgcv::gamm (which calls MASS:glmmPQL which calls glm), which is why I'm not just supplying my own mustart and getting on with it... best, Simon >- Simon Wood, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY >- +44 (0)1225 386603 www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~sw283/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
