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Warning message in summary of PGLM

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Ana Navarrete, Anthropologisches Inst. wrote:

            
This is a warning that you tried to evaluate a tail probability (I 
guess a p-value) in an rather extreme case.  What case, you didn't 
deign to tell us (see the footer of this and every R-help message). 
Very likely the result is good enough for your purposes, but only you 
can decide that.

However, from what we do see, pf is called with ncp = 0.  That is 
almost certainly an error by the author of the code you are using (in 
some package you didn't mention?), since (for consistency with values 
of ncp near zero) pf(ncp=0) does not use the same algorithm as pf() 
without supplying ncp.

I did try to track this down, but suspect you are not using any CRAN 
nor BioC package, maybe one of a few possibilities on R-forge.