I'm not sure this is the most elegant way. See ?formula for the canonical way of doing this in R. However, I am hoping you're not fitting a model with more than 2,000 predictors, are you? If so, ummm, wow.
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of R. Michael Weylandt > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:28 AM > To: carol white > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] too many var in lm > > The most elegant solution is going to depend on where you data comes from, > but one way to do it if you have a matrix of data: > > D = cbind(rcauchy(100), matrix(runif(100*50),ncol=50)) # Some nonsense data > lm(D[,1] ~ D[,-1]) > > If you let us know how your data is set up, a more specific response can be > given. > > Hope this helps, > > Michael Weylandt > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, carol white <wht_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > It might be an easy question but if you have many variables to fit in the > > lm function, how do you take all without specifying var1+var2+...+var2100 in > > the terms parameter in response ~ terms? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Carol > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.