I tried to run the sample code from R: dd <- data.frame(a = gl(3,4), b = gl(4,1,12)) a b 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 3 4 1 4 5 2 1 6 2 2 7 2 3 8 2 4 9 3 1 10 3 2 11 3 3 12 3 4 options("contrasts") model.matrix(~ a + b, dd)(Intercept) a2 a3 b2 b3 b4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 7 1 1 0 0 1 0 8 1 1 0 0 0 1 9 1 0 1 0 0 0 10 1 0 1 1 0 0 11 1 0 1 0 1 0 12 1 0 1 0 0 1 when I tried to remove the intercept from the matrix, I used the following codemodel.matrix(~ 0+a + b, dd) a1 a2 a3 b2 b3 b41 1 0 0 0 0 02 1 0 0 1 0 03 1 0 0 0 1 04 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 1 0 0 0 06 0 1 0 1 0 07 0 1 0 0 1 08 0 1 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 0 0 010 0 0 1 1 0 011 0 0 1 0 1 012 0 0 1 0 0 1 when I tried to remove the intercept
Here I noticed that, all levels of a, a1, a2, and a3, were included. I wonder how I can include the "b1" in the matrix as well? a1 a2 a3 b1 b2 b3 b4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 11 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 12 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 [[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.