MCMC bin output

[caspar]

Dear list,

I have been unsuccessfully trying to assess model convergence after running MCMC on a multistate model in MARK. I used the following code in R:

mcmcdata=create.mark.mcmc(filename,ncovs,nmeans,ndesigns,nsigmas,nrhos,nlogit,include=F);

and got

Error in xmcmc[i, ] = readBin(z, numeric(), n = nvals) :
number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length

By debugging the create.mark.mcmc I noticed two things:
The (while) loop in create.mark.mcmc causes the error at i=9988, just before reaching the 10000th sample.
Secondly, within the xmcmc object, values range between -1.797342e+308 and 1.797275e+308, yet the editor output of the mcmc simulations seems to be providing reasonable estimates of parameters.

I used MARK 6.1 on Window NT (x64), and tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of R.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Best wishes

Caspar

[jlaake]

This is not part of RMark and should be listed on the Analysis Help sub-forum. When you get that type of result it can be a disparity between binary lengths - 32 vs 64 bits.