library(bbmle) old_opt <- options(digits=3) x <- 0:10 y <- c(26, 17, 13, 12, 20, 5, 9, 8, 5, 4, 8) d <- data.frame(x,y) ## throws warning on some CRAN system (BDR report 2019-12-20) ## /tests-noLD/bbmle.Rcheck’ ## * using R Under development (unstable) (2019-12-19 r77606) ## * using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) ## suppressWarnings() doesn't seem to suppress the warning?? ## instead use test from https://www.r-bloggers.com/a-nold-platform-on-r-hub-package-builder/ if (capabilities("long.double")) { fit0 <- suppressWarnings( mle2(y~dpois(lambda=ymean),start=list(ymean=mean(y)),data=d, method="L-BFGS-B",lower=10) ) stopifnot(is.na(confint(fit0)[1])) } fit1 <- mle2(y~dpois(lambda=exp(a+b*x)),start=list(a=0,b=2),data=d, method="L-BFGS-B",lower=-0.2) suppressWarnings(confint(fit1)) fit2 <- mle2(y~dpois(lambda=exp(a+b*x)),start=list(a=0,b=2),data=d, method="L-BFGS-B") pp <- profile(fit2,prof.lower=-0.2) stopifnot(min(subset(as.data.frame(pp),param=="b")$par.vals.b)==-0.2) ## note that b does go below -0.2 when profiling a ... options(old_opt)