pdf("orlistat.pdf") orl1 <- read.fwf("C:\\data\\orlistat.dat", width=c(8,8), col.names=c("ffe", "dose")) orl <- data.frame(ffe=orl1$ffe, dose=orl1$dose) attach(orl) orl.nl1 <- nls(ffe ~ b0 + ((b1*dose)/(b2+dose)), start=c(b0=1, b1=1, b2=1)) summary(orl.nl1) dev.off()