... But glm(1~1, family = gaussian) ## works. As does family = "gaussian"
(R 3.1.2 ) Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Mathew McLean <mmcl...@stat.tamu.edu> wrote: > The documentation for glm/glm.fit indicates that the family argument "can > be a character string naming a family function, a family function or the > result of a call to a family function". > > glm.fit(1, 1, family = "gaussian") > > ## Error: $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors > > glm.fit(1, 1, family = gaussian) > > ## Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable > > glm.fit(1, 1, family = gaussian()) # works, results omitted > > sessionInfo() > > ## R version 3.1.2 Patched (2015-02-20 r67856) > ## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > ## Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 > > ## locale: > ## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 > ## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C > > ## [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > ## attached base packages: > ## [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > ## loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > ## [1] tools_3.1.2 > > > -- > Mathew W. McLean > Research Assistant Professor > 462 Blocker Building > Texas A&M University > www.stat.tamu.edu/~mmclean > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
