Dear Dingyuan Wang, But your question was answered clearly earlier in this thread (I forget by whom), showing that lm() provides the solution to the regression of x on y if the criterion for singularity is tightened:
> lm(x ~ y) Call: lm(formula = x ~ y) Coefficients: (Intercept) y 94.73 NA > lm(x ~ y, tol=1e-10) Call: lm(formula = x ~ y, tol = 1e-10) Coefficients: (Intercept) y -2.403e+09 1.595e+00 Best, John > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dingyuan > Wang > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:36 PM > To: Michael Dewey <li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk>; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] lm fails on some large input > > I just want to make a line out of timestamps vs some coordinates, so y~x or > x~y doesn't matter. > > Yes, I know the answer. When trying R, I'm surprised that R can't solve that > either. I first noticed that PostgreSQL can't solve it, and found that they > fixed > that in pg 12. > > https://www.postgresql.org/message- > id/153313051300.1397.9594490737341194671%40wrigleys.postgresql.org > > Therefore I come to ask whether someone know how to fix this in R, or I must > submit it as a bug? > > 2019/4/18 23:24, Michael Dewey: > > Perhaps subtract 1506705766 from y? > > > > Saying some other software does it well implies you know what the > > _correct_ answer is here but I would question what that means with > > this sort of data-set. > > > > On 17/04/2019 07:26, Dingyuan Wang wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This input doesn't have any interesting properties except y is unix > >> time. Spreadsheets can do this well. > >> Is this a bug that lm can't do x ~ y? > >> > >> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo" > >> Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >> > >> > x = c(79.744, 123.904, 87.29601, 116.352, 67.71201, 72.96001, > >> 101.632, 108.928, 94.08) > >> > y = c(1506705739.385, 1506705766.895, 1506705746.293, > >> 1506705761.873, 1506705734.743, 1506705735.351, 1506705756.26, > >> 1506705761.307, 1506705747.372) > >> > m = lm(x ~ y) > >> > summary(m) > >> > >> Call: > >> lm(formula = x ~ y) > >> > >> Residuals: > >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max > >> -27.0222 -14.9902 -0.6542 14.1938 29.1698 > >> > >> Coefficients: (1 not defined because of singularities) > >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) > >> (Intercept) 94.734 6.511 14.55 4.88e-07 *** y > >> NA NA NA NA > >> --- > >> Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > >> > >> Residual standard error: 19.53 on 8 degrees of freedom > >> > >> > summary(lm(y ~ x)) > >> > >> Call: > >> lm(formula = y ~ x) > >> > >> Residuals: > >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max > >> -2.1687 -1.3345 -0.9466 1.3826 2.6551 > >> > >> Coefficients: > >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) > >> (Intercept) 1.507e+09 3.294e+00 4.574e+08 < 2e-16 *** x > >> 6.136e-01 3.413e-02 1.798e+01 4.07e-07 *** > >> --- > >> Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > >> > >> Residual standard error: 1.885 on 7 degrees of freedom Multiple > >> R-squared: 0.9788, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9758 > >> F-statistic: 323.3 on 1 and 7 DF, p-value: 4.068e-07 > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> 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. > >> > >> --- > >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > >> https://www.avg.com > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.