if( !require('drc') ){ install.packages('drc', dependencies=TRUE, repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/") } library(drc) # The example from the book: # RScompetition.book = nls(biomass ~ a/(1 + b*(x + c * z)), data=RScompetition, start=list(a=20, b=1, c=1)) print(confint(RScompetition.book))