Henrique Dallazuanna from Curitiba writes: > > Try > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:07 AM, maud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > (1) I need to be able to have my list of variables in the regression > > be based from a variable vector instead of hard code. > > (2) I need to be able to collect the significant variables from the > > output of the regression in a vector. > > > > As example code consider: > > > > out <- glm(Var_0~Var_1+Var_2, family=binomial(link=logit), > > data=MyData) > > [snip] > > > > For (1) I would like some code analogous to the following (which > > doesn't work) > > > > VarVec <- c("Var_1","Var_2") > > out <- glm(Var_0~VarVec, family=binomial(link=logit), data=MyData) > > form <- as.formula(paste("Var_0", paste(VarVec, collapse="+"), sep = " ~ ")) > out <- glm(form, family=binomial(link=logit), data = MyData)
OK this works for fitting models, but it has a big drawback in that if you get rid of the variable 'form' you cannot predict from it. The fitted model object comes in two bits and that's not a good idea. You can repair things in a fairly ugly way, namely out$call$formula <- form and the trap is unset once more. This really points to the need for a generic function, "formula<-", to make this a more natural and safer operation itself. It would not be needed all that often, though... > > > > For (2) I would like to be able to access the table shown above (which > > is only part of what summary(out) displays). I'd like something like > > > > SigVars <- summary(out)$coefficients[,4] > SigVars[SigVars < .001] > This is a bit picky, but I would use the column label to make clear which one I wanted: SigVars <- summary(out)$coefficients[, "P(>|z|)", drop = FALSE] rownames(SigVars)[SigVars < 0.001] The drop = FALSE ensures it stays as a matrix, keeping its row names, as presumably you want to know which ones are significant by name. > > > > > table <- summary(out) > > SigVars <- table[Pr(>|z|) < .001] > > > > that is collect all of the variables with a Pr(>|z|) value less than . > > 001. Bill Venables. ______________________________________________ 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.