cannot fit gev model to data. please help :(

[Kritish]

Error in optim(init, gev.lik, hessian = TRUE, method = method, control = list(maxit = maxit, :
non-finite finite-difference value [1]

[andresrcs]

We don't really have enough info to help you out. Could you ask this with a minimal REPRoducible EXample (reprex)? A reprex makes it much easier for others to understand your issue and figure out how to help.

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