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> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:27:38 +0200
> From: "Rani Elkon" <ranel at="" post.tau.ac.il="">
> Subject: [BioC] normexp error
> To: <bioconductor at="" stat.math.ethz.ch="">
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to normalize my data using limma's normexp method. The
process
> fails at some chips giving the error message pasted below.
> Does anyone know how this problem can be circumvented?
>
> (I'm using limma 2.0.2 and R 2.1.1).
>
> Thanks,
> -Rani.
>
>> dKa.RG.bgCorrect <- backgroundCorrect(dKa.RG, method="normexp",
offset=50)
> Corrected array 1
> Corrected array 2
> Corrected array 3
> Corrected array 4
> Corrected array 5
> Error in optim(par = c(beta, log(sigma), log(alpha)), fn =
normexp.m2loglik,
> :
> initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite
That's a pity. We had hoped we had made this problem very unlikely in
recent versions of limma.
Try
summary( dKa.RG$R[,6] )
summary( dKa.RG$G[,6] )
summary( dKa.RG$Rb[,6] )
summary( dKa.RG$Gb[,6] )
to see if there are any problems with your data.
Other than that, I have no suggestions for a work-around at this time.
Gordon