nlme.control(maxiter = 50, pnls.maxiter = 7, lme.maxiter = 50,
minscale = 0.001, tolerance = 0.001,
pnls.tolerance = 0.001, lme.tolerance = 1e-06,
return.object = F)
# increase the maximum number of iterations in the PNLS step and return the # object when maximum number of iterations is attained without convergence nlme.control(pnls.maxiter = 20, return.object = T)