<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Sarah,</div><div>Sorry it took me so long to answer. I have no clue about the problem but I expect it has something to do with the selection of pseudo-absence.</div><div>Please have a try with using "random" instead and let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, you seem to have a very very large number of variables. Given the names, I expect that many of them are strongly correlated. Running most of these models on correlated data is not a very good practice.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Wilfried</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>Le 22 janv. 2011 à 03:34, Sarah Skikne a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear BIOMODers,<br><br>I am having some trouble with the models() function in BIOMOD and was hoping to get some help.&nbsp; <br><br>Here is the relevant info:<br>- R version 2.12.1<br>- I re-downloaded the BIOMOD package a few days ago so it should be up to date.<br>
- code:<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TrialDF&lt;-data.frame(XCoord=x,
YCoord=y, RAIN1=RAIN1scan, RAIN2=RAIN2scan, RAIN3=RAIN3scan,
RAIN4=RAIN4scan, RAIN5=RAIN5scan, RAIN6=RAIN6scan, RAIN7=RAIN7scan,
RAIN8=RAIN8scan, RAIN9=RAIN9scan, RAIN10=RAIN10scan, RAIN11=RAIN11scan,
RAIN12=RAIN12scan, TMAX1=TMAX1scan, TMAX2=TMAX2scan, TMAX3=TMAX3scan,
TMAX4=TMAX4scan, TMAX5=TMAX5scan, TMAX6=TMAX6scan, TMAX7=TMAX7scan,
TMAX8=TMAX8scan, TMAX9=TMAX9scan, TMAX10=TMAX10scan, TMAX11=TMAX11scan,
TMAX12=TMAX12scan, TMEAN1=TMEAN1scan, TMEAN2=TMEAN2scan, TMEAN3=TMEAN3scan,
TMEAN4=TMEAN4scan, TMEAN5=TMEAN5scan, TMEAN6=TMEAN6scan, TMEAN7=TMEAN7scan,
TMEAN8=TMEAN8scan, TMEAN9=TMEAN9scan, TMEAN10=TMEAN10scan, TMEAN11=TMEAN11scan, TMEAN12=TMEAN12scan, TMIN1=TMIN1scan, TMIN2=TMIN2scan, TMIN3=TMIN3scan,
TMIN4=TMIN4scan, TMIN5=TMIN5scan, TMIN6=TMIN6scan, TMIN7=TMIN7scan,
TMIN8=TMIN8scan, TMIN9=TMIN9scan, TMIN10=TMIN10scan, TMIN11=TMIN11scan, TMIN12=TMIN12scan,<span style="">&nbsp; </span>LOCALITY=localityscan)</span></p>

<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></div><p style="font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal">Initial.State(Response=TrialDF[,51],
Explanatory=TrialDF[,3:50], IndependentResponse=NULL,
IndependentExplanatory=NULL, <a href="http://sp.name/">sp.name</a>='spp1')</p><p style="font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal">Models(GLM=T, TypeGLM="poly",
Test="AIC", GBM=T, No.trees=2000, GAM=T, CTA=T, CV.tree=50, ANN=T,
CV.ann=3, SRE=T, MARS=T, RF=T, NbRunEval=3, DataSplit=80, NbRepPA=2,
strategy="circles", coor=TrialDF[,1:2], distance=.5,
nb.absences=220, Yweights=NULL, VarImport=T, Roc=T, Optimized.Threshold.Roc=T,
Kappa=T, TSS=T, KeepPredIndependent=T)</p>

<br>From this, I get the following:<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">Modelling
summary </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">-----------------------------------
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">Number
of species modelled :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">redwood</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">numerical
variables :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>RAIN1,
RAIN2, RAIN3, RAIN4, RAIN5, RAIN6, RAIN7, RAIN8, RAIN9, RAIN10, RAIN11, RAIN12,
TMAX1, TMAX2, TMAX3, TMAX4, TMAX5, TMAX6, TMAX7, TMAX8, TMAX9, TMAX10, TMAX11,
TMAX12, TMEAN1, TMEAN2, TMEAN3, TMEAN4, TMEAN5, TMEAN6, TMEAN7, TMEAN8, TMEAN9,
TMEAN10, TMEAN11, TMEAN12, TMIN1, TMIN2, TMIN3, TMIN4, TMIN5, TMIN6, TMIN7,
TMIN8, TMIN9, TMIN10, TMIN11, TMIN12</span></p><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">number
of evaluation repetitions :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">number
of pseudo-absences runs :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">models
selected :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>ANN,
CTA, GAM, GBM, GLM, MARS, RF, SRE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">total
number of model runs :<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>64</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">-----------------------------------
</span></p><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">#####<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>redwood<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>#####</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">#####<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>pseudo-absence run 1<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>#####</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">Model=Artificial
Neural Network </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3 Fold Cross Validation + 3
Repetitions </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">Calibration
and evaluation phase: Nb of cross-validations:<span style="">&nbsp;
</span>3 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">Error
in xzfile(file, "wb", compression = 9) : cannot open the connection</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">In
addition: There were 15 warnings (use warnings() to see them)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">This code used to work for me so not sure what has changed.&nbsp; </font><font size="2">When I try it using the sample data given in the manual, I 
get the error about 50% of the time.&nbsp; When I use my data, I get the 
error every time.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">Any help on the "xzfile" error and how to avoid it would be great.&nbsp; <br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Thanks!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Sarah<br>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span><font size="2">California Academy of Sciences</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"><br>
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