<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear BaSTa,<div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>After several runs I have typed out$lifetable and got the following</div><div><br></div><div><div>> out$lifetable</div><div>NULL</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>I should report I got several warning messages (see bottom) when I ran the following: </div><div><div>Survival parameters converged appropriately. </div><div>DIC was calculated</div><div>.Warning messages:</div><div>1: In max(DeathAges, na.rm = TRUE) :</div><div> no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf</div><div>2: In max(wa) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf</div><div>3: In MakeLifeTable(x, ax = 0.5, n = 1) : NAs introduced by coercion</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My code was as follows, </div><div><br></div><div><div>out <- basta(object = Males.dat$newData, studyStart = 1979, studyEnd = 1982, burnin=1000 ,niter=10000, nsim=4, parallel=TRUE, ncpus=4)</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In this one I had all the birthdays at 1978, and first captures in 1979.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are the errors from the </div><div>Multiple simulations finished.<div>Total MCMC computing time: 3.91 minutes</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much!!</div><div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cliff Cunningham</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Professor</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Biology Department</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Duke University</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> 130 Science Drive</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Durham NC 27708<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Phone 919-660-7356<br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham">http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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