I want to run a Gaussian GLM with a log link and an offset. The following problems arise:

y <- c(1,1,0,0)
t <- c(5,3,2,4)

No problem:

exp(coef(glm(y~1 +  offset(log(t)), family=poisson)))

with family=gaussian, starting values need to be specified, it works here:

exp(coef(glm(y~1, family=gaussian(link=log), start=0)))

but does not work here:

exp(coef(glm(y~1 +  offset(log(t)), family=gaussian(link=log), start=0)))

Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : cannot find valid starting values: please specify some"

Does anyone see what's wrong (hopefully just in my coding) ?

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