On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:13 AM, iliketurtles wrote:
HI all,
I'm new to R.
Say I have a multi-layered list called newlist.
Which you have not provided in a form that lends itself well to
constructing worked examples.
############
str(newlist)
List of 2
$ :List of 5
..$ : num [1:8088] NA 464 482 535 557 ...
..$ : num [1:8088, 1:2] NA 464 482 535 557 ...
..$ : num [1:8088, 1:3] NA 464 482 535 557 ...
..$ : num [1:8088, 1:4] NA 464 482 535 557 ...
..$ : num [1:8088, 1:5] NA 464 482 535 557 ...
$ :List of 3
..$ : num [1:8088] NA NA 1386 464 482 ...
..$ : num [1:8088] NA NA NA 1386 464 ...
..$ : num [1:8088] NA NA NA NA 1386 ...
############
Let's say this list has 2 entries. i.e. length(newlist)=2. However,
in my
function this list can be any number of entries, 1 to N. I want to
regress
each newlist[[N]] in a multiple linear regression. The problem is I
don't
know how to make a non-character or a non-numeric repeat.
So I'd want something like:
#---------------------------
dumplist<-list()
for(a in 1:length(newlist[[1]])){
for(b in 1:length(newlist[[2]]){
for(terminal in 1:length(newlist[[length(newlist)]])){
Most problems if this sort arise from failing to understand that
formulas are not built up like that. The lm function is not going to
interpret your character values inside the expressions linked with
"+"'s and "~". If you want to make a formula you will need to use
paste() to construct the approriate string and then formula() or
as.formula() to make it the appropriate mode ( and do this before
passing to lm(). There are many, many worked examples in the rhelp
archives.
--
David
dumlist[[..]]<-lm(y~newlist[[1]][a] + newlist[[2]]][b] + ....... +
newlist[[N]][terminal]).
}}}
#---------------------------
and I want the above to adjust to whatever N is.
I'm new to R so this kind of thing is very difficult. I'm
experimenting with
eval(), parse(), paste(), expression(), letters[] and other stuff
but I'm
not getting far and I would greatly appreciation any guidance.
----
Isaac
Research Assistant
Quantitative Finance Faculty, UTS
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