> Martin Maechler
> on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:17:50 +0100 writes:
(a bit more than 6 months ago)
> Ramiro Barrantes
> on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:02:52 + writes:
>> Hello, I was relying on withTimeout (from R.utils) to
>> help me stop nlme when it �hangs�. However,
em and shows the problem indeed does not
happen in nlminb() -- which I wrongly assumed for a while --
but indeed in nlme's call to own .C() code.
I am looking into fixing this (making it interruptable // detect
the infinite loop).
My guess is that it only happens in degenerate cases like her
Hello,
I was relying on withTimeout (from R.utils) to help me stop nlme when it
�hangs�. However, recently this stopped working. I am pasting a reproducible
example below: withTimeout should stop nlme after 10 seconds but the code will
generate data for which nlme does not converge (or takes
