Exactly. Just a matter of fixing the glm.fit Help page. -- 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 3:11 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Mathew McLean 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 > > It's fairly easy to find near the top of code in `glm` which lines are > responsible for doing the lookup for a family object and to see by comparison > that such lookup efforts are not in `glm.fit` Users are advised that > `glm.fit` is not generally called directly. I think it was expected that > people who were doing so, should be able to figure the situation out rather > quickly by looking at the code. You might also have noticed that the Usage > parameters for glm and glm.fit are different. > > -- > David. >> >> 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 >> > > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
