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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi everybody,<br><br><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span>Congratulation for the pack, is very useful. <br></span></span>I'm a PhD student that use I<span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">PMpack</span> <span class="hps">to analyze</span> <span class="hps">different populations</span> <span class="hps">of</span> a <span class="hps">perennial plant species</span><span> (so I have 3 years of data for every population). <br></span> <br><span class="hps">I have two questions</span><span>:</span><br> <span class="hps">1)</span> <span class="hps">in one of the</span> <span class="hps">populations</span> I <span class="hps">have</span> many <span class="hps">NA</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">both in</span> <span class="hps">size</span> <span class="hps">and in</span> <span class="hps">sizeNext</span><span> columns, consequently</span> <span class="hps">also</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">fec0</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>probability of</span> <span class="hps">flowering)</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">fec1</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>number of fruit</span><span>)</span><span>.</span> <br><span class="hps">In the construction</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">models</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">survival</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">growth</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>via</span> <span class="hps">survModelComp</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">growthModelComp</span><span>)</span> <span class="hps">I get the following</span> <span class="hps">error</span><span>: <br>"Error</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">plot.window</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>...</span><span>)</span><span>: need</span> <span class="hps">finite</span> <span class="hps atn">'</span><span>ylim</span><span>'</span> <span class="hps">values</span><br> <span class="hps">In</span> <span class="hps">addition:</span> <span class="hps">There</span> <span class="hps">were</span> <span class="hps">16</span> <span class="hps">warnings</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>use warnings</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>)</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">see</span> <span class="hps">them</span><span>)</span><span>."</span> <span class="hps"><br>Here </span><span class="hps">the code</span> <span class="hps">(which works</span> <span class="hps">well with</span> <span class="hps">other</span> populations<span>,</span> <span class="hps">except</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">this</span><span>)</span><span>:</span><br> <span class="hps">survModelComp</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>dataf</span> <span class="hps">=</span> <span class="hps">dhsr</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">makePlot</span> <span class="hps">=</span> <span class="hps">TRUE</span><span>, </span><span class="hps">legendPos</span>  <span class="hps">=</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>bottomleft</span><span>", </span><span class="hps">Maintitle</span>  <span class="hps">=</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Survival</span><span>"</span><span>)<br>It is possible that the many NAs create a problem?<br></span><br> <span class="hps">2)</span> <span class="hps">in all </span></span><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">analyzed</span> <span class="hps"></span></span> populations</span> <span class="hps">lambda</span> <span class="hps">get</span> <span class="hps">very high</span> <span class="hps">as many</span> <span class="hps">variables</span> <span class="hps">added</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">fecundity</span> <span class="hps">object</span><span>.</span> <br><span class="hps">I tried</span> <span class="hps">inserting</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">data frame</span> <span class="hps">columns</span><span>:</span><br> <span class="hps">fec0</span> <span class="hps">(probability of</span> <span class="hps">flowering)</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">fec1</span> <span class="hps">(number of</span> <span class="hps">fruits</span><span>)</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">nFl</span> <span class="hps">(number of</span> <span class="hps">flowers</span><span>)</span><span>.</span><br> <span class="hps">I get a</span> <span class="hps">lambda</span><span> near </span><span class="hps">1</span> <span class="hps">only if</span> <span class="hps">I leave</span> <span class="hps">exclusively</span> <span class="hps">fec0</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>the probability of</span> <span class="hps">flowering)</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">does anyone know how</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">solve</span> <span class="hps">by adding</span> <span class="hps">at least</span> <span class="hps">fec1</span><span>?</span></span><br>R0 also get <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">excessively high values... I think that is for the same problem with lambda.</span></span><br><br>Thanks to all for any suggestion,<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Elena Sulis                                    </div></body>
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