Thank you both very much. It is the unname that is what I am looking for. Thanks!
Btw , must the [1] be there? I am writing a Shiny web app hence I would like to display the value alone. Thanks! > unname(lm(x~y)$coefficient[1])[1] 0.5714286> > coef(lm(x~y))["(Intercept)"](Intercept) 0.5714286 > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 05.10.2014 15:02, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 05/10/2014, 7:21 AM, billy am wrote: >> >>> Hi , >>> >>> When I run the following code , I get both the description and the value >>> , >>> eg : Intercept and 0.5714286. >>> >>> Is there a way to extract just the value 0.5714286? Thanks! >>> >>> >>> x <- c(1,5,3,1)> y <- c(5,8,2,3)> lm(x~y) >>>> >>> Call: >>> lm(formula = x ~ y) >>> >>> Coefficients: >>> (Intercept) y >>> 0.5714 0.4286 >>> >>>> lm(x~y)$coefficient[1](Intercept) >>>> >>> 0.5714286 >>> >>> >> It's a name, not a description. The result is a named vector. >> >> To get rid of the name, call unname() on it, i.e. >> >> unname(lm(x~y)$coefficient[1]) >> > > I guess the OP is going to use the name (here "(Intercept)" without the > quotes) to extract the value, hence (also using the extractior function > coef()): > > coef(lm(x~y))["(Intercept)"] > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.