Dear all, I am working on a function formula.design that should automatically generate reasonable lm formulae for a number of different designs. All works well as long as all variables used are columns of the design data frame. For one function, I would like to incorporate a dummy variable for center points that is not a column of the design. Without this function, it would work like this (at least version 0.97 of package FrF2):
require(FrF2) plan <- FrF2(8,4,ncenter=6) y <- rnorm(14) r.plan<-add.response(plan,y) lm(y~A+B+C+D+!iscube(r.plan), r.plan) Building the formula from within function formula.design works OK at first sight: > formula(r.plan) y ~ A + B + C + D + (!iscube(r.plan)) However, using the formula in a linear model call does not work in this case: > lm(r.plan) Fehler in inherits(x, "factor") : Objekt 'object' nicht gefunden > traceback() 12: inherits(x, "factor") 11: is.factor(table) 10: match(x, table, nomatch = 0L) 9: "design" %in% class(design) 8: iscube(object) 7: eval(expr, envir, enclos) 6: eval(predvars, data, env) 5: model.frame.default(formula = r.plan, drop.unused.levels = TRUE) 4: model.frame(formula = r.plan, drop.unused.levels = TRUE) 3: eval(expr, envir, enclos) 2: eval(mf, parent.frame()) 1: lm(r.plan) 9: of the traceback is the first line of function iscube, and it seems that the object r.plan cannot be found here. I have no idea how to fix this. In case it helps: The expression generating the formula in function formula.design is as.formula(paste(response, paste(c(names(factor.names), paste("!iscube(",xnam,")",sep="")), collapse="+"),sep="~")) I am grateful for any pointers that direct me to a fix for this problem and/or to a better understanding of its root cause. Thanks and regards, Ulrike -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-correct-usage-of-formula-environment-tp25136335p25136335.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel