use the function resid instead of lm.object$residuals to extract the residuals:
> resid(lm(a~b, na.action=na.exclude)) 1 2 3 4 5 6 -2.533445e-17 4.222409e-17 -8.444818e-18 -8.444818e-18 NA NA > lm(a~b, na.action=na.exclude)$residuals 1 2 3 4 -2.533445e-17 4.222409e-17 -8.444818e-18 -8.444818e-18 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Georg Ehret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R community, Can I please get some advice on the following: I wish > to obtain a list of residuals, padded by NAs for NAs in my source data. I > tried several options of "na.action", but did not succeed... > > Example: I would like to get "0,0,0,0,NA,NA": > > a > [1] 1 2 3 4 NA 9 > > b > [1] 3 4 5 6 7 NA > > lm(a~b)$residuals > 1 2 3 4 > 0 0 0 0 > > lm(a~b,na.action=na.exclude)$residuals > 1 2 3 4 > 0 0 0 0 > > Thank you and best regards! > Georg. > ************************** > Georg Ehret > Johns Hopkins > Baltimore, USA > > [[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.