Hi
I have a follow up question, relating to subsetting to list items. After using
the list and min(sapply()) method to adjust the length of the variables, I
specify a dynamic regression equation using the variables in the list. My list
looks like this:
Dcr<-
list(Dcre1=DCred1,Dcre2=DCred2,Dcre3=DCred3,Dbobc1=DBoBC1,Dbobc2=DBoBC2,Dbobc3=DBoBC3,...)
By specifying the list items with names, I thought I could end by referencing
them (or subsetting the list) as, eg., Dcr$Dcre1 and get DCred1, Dcr$Dbobc1 and
get DBoBC1, etc so that the explanatory variables of the equation can be easily
associated with their respective original names. This way, I would avoid
specifying the list as Dcr<-list(Dcr1, Dcr2, Dcr, 3..., Dcr15) and then
subsetting the list using Dcr[[1]][1:29], Dcr[[[2]][1:29], ..., Dcr[[15]][1:29]
because the list has many variables (15) and referencing the variables with
numbers makes them lose their original names.
When I specify the list as Dcr<- list(Dcr1, Dcr2, ..., Dcr15), then the
regression equation specified as:
# Regression
regCred<-
lm(Dcr[[1]][1:29]~Dcr[[2]][1:29]+Dcr[[3]][1:29]+Dcr[[4]][1:29]+Dcr[[5]][1:29]+Dcr[[6]][1:29]+...)
runs without problems - the results are shown here below:
Call:
lm(formula = Dcr[[1]][1:29] ~ Dcr[[2]][1:29] + Dcr[[3]][1:29] +
Dcr[[4]][1:29] + Dcr[[5]][1:29] + Dcr[[6]][1:29])
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-86.293 -33.586 -9.969 40.147 117.965
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 81.02064 13.28632 6.098 3.21e-06 ***
Dcr[[2]][1:29] -0.97407 0.11081 -8.791 8.20e-09 ***
Dcr[[3]][1:29] -0.27950 0.05899 -4.738 8.95e-05 ***
Dcr[[4]][1:29] -0.07961 0.04856 -1.639 0.115
Dcr[[5]][1:29] -0.07180 0.05515 -1.302 0.206
Dcr[[6]][1:29] -0.01562 0.02086 -0.749 0.462
But when I specify the list with names as shown above, then the equation does
not run - as shown by the following error message
> # Regression
> regCred<- lm(Dcr[[1]][1:29]~Dcr[[2]][1:29]+Dcr[[3]][1:29]+Dcr[[4]][1:29]+
+ Dcr[[5]][1:29]+Dcr$Dbobc3)
Error in model.frame.default(formula = Dcr[[1]][1:29] ~ Dcr[[2]][1:29] + :
variable lengths differ (found for 'Dcr$Dbobc3')
> Dcr[[5]][1:29]+Dcr$Dbobc3[1:29])
Error: unexpected ')' in "Dcr[[5]][1:29]+Dcr$Dbobc3[1:29])"
NB: In the equation with error message, only the last term is specified by
referencing its name (ie., Dcr$Dbobc3[1:29]. Also note that the error occurs
whether I append '[1:29]' to Dcr$Dbobc or not.
How do I resolve this?
Thanks. Lexi
NB: I tried typing the above in the same email Petr used to reply me, but the
email could not be delivered due to size problems
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