I have a matrix called mat and y is the column number of my response and x is a vector of the column numbers of my terms. The variable name of y can change, so I don't want to hardcode it. I can find out the name as follows:
> names(mat)[y] [1] "er12.l" Then I can run the regression by hard coding the variable name as follows: > mod <- try(rlm(er12.l ~ ., data=mat[zidx, c(y, x)]), silent=TRUE) But how would I do so without hard coding the name er12.l? I set up a reproducible example. In the following my regression formula is aa ~ bb + cc, or more simply aa ~ . How can I use the name of the first column without hard coding aa? dat <- data.frame(aa=runif(50), bb=runif(50), cc=runif(50)) names(dat)[1] lm(aa ~ ., data=dat[1:10,]) Thanks, Roger *************************************************************** This message is for the named person's use only. It may\...{{dropped:14}} ______________________________________________ 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.