Hi David , coef alone won't do as it still contains the description. As per the example in ?coef shows ,
> x <- 1:5; coef(lm(c(1:3, 7, 6) ~ x))(Intercept) x -0.7 1.5 Unless I use cat again , > x <- 1:5; cat(coef(lm(c(1:3, 7, 6) ~ x))[1])-0.7 Thanks! Billy On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:42 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > ?coef > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 5, 2014, at 4:21 AM, billy am <wickedpu...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > > >> > > > > Regards > > Billy > > > > [[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. > [[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.