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Message-ID: <20050426170942.3376418e.Achim.Zeileis@wu-wien.ac.at>
Date: 2005-04-26T15:09:42Z
From: Achim Zeileis
Subject: Error using e1071 svm: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call
In-Reply-To: <00ba01c54a6e$b5cc99f0$5e7aa8c0@FEUPsig.fe.up.pt>

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:46:20 +0100 Jo??o Mendes Moreira wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> As far I saw in archive mailing list, I am not the first person with
> this problem. Anyway I was not able to pass this error once the
> information I got from the archive it is not very conclusive for this
> case. I have used linear, radial and sigmoid kernels for the same data
> in the same conditions and everything is ok.  This problem just
> happens with the polynomial kernel. I send the debuging result from a
> reproducible example. The error message is at the end.

I receive a different error message:
  Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Object "Fim" not found
So much for the reproducibility... Wouldn't it be possible to simply use
a data set that is already available in R, *please*?

Anyways, it seems that your specification of `nu' causes the
problem: 0 might be a little bit too small.
Z