Hello, I have a question concerning ‘for loops’ on multiple columns. I made 91 columns with results (all made together with a for loop) and I want to us lm to fit the model. I want to compare the results of all these calculated columns (91) with one column with observed values. I use the function lm to fit the model and calculate r.squared. I manage to do this for each column separately:
For example: my calculated results are in the dataframe ‘results6”, my observed results in data, (data$observed). #To calculate R2 for column 1: lm.modelobs1 <- lm(results6[,c(1)] ~ data$observed) R2.1 <- summary(lm.modelobs1)["r.squared"] #To calculate R2 for column 91: lm.modelobs91 <- lm(results6[,c(91)] ~ data$observed) R2.91 <- summary(lm.modelobs91)["r.squared"] But I think there has to be a method to do this automatically and not 91 times. I tried to use a for loop: ###(length(C) = 91) results7<-data.frame(lm.modelobs=rep(NA,length(C))) for (i in (1:91)) { results7$lm.modelobs[i] <- lm(results6[i] ~ data$observed) R2.[i] <- summary(lm.modelobs[i])["r.squared"] } I also tried just to calculate results7$lm.modelobs[i] without directly calculating r.squared but I also didn’t manage. It seems like it’s not possible to use the referral to a column in a for loop or a function. (if I just ask R the data in column 5 with ‘ results6[5] ’, that works. ‘ results6[,c(5)]’ gives the same but replacing results6[i] by results6[,c([i])] in the for loop is apparently also no a solution). I’m looking for a manner to repeat a calculation/function on several columns. I kind of need this as well further in my script, not only in this part… I would greatly appreciate any suggestions! Thanks! Nerak -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Accomplishing-a-loop-on-multiple-columns-tp4284974p4284974.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.