Your data has 2 points per regression for each year in industry 1 and only one point per regression for the other industries so one would expect many NAs:
> table(data[c("industry", "year")]) year industry 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Cecilia Carmo<cecilia.ca...@ua.pt> wrote: > Hi R-helpers. > > #I start with the reproducible example: > firm<-c(rep(1,10),rep(2,10),rep(3,10),rep(4,10),rep(5,10)) > year<-c(rep(1998:2007,5)) > industry<-c(rep(1,20),rep(5,10),rep(7,10),rep(9,10)) > X1<-rnorm(50) > X2<-rnorm(50,mean=0.5,sd=0.1) > Y<-rnorm(50,mean=0,sd=0.5) > data<-data.frame(firm, industry,year,X1,X2,Y) > data > > #I need to calculate for all the industries the following #coefficients and > store it (lmList is from nlme package) > b1 <- lmList(Y~X1+X2| year, na.action=na.omit, data, subset=industry==1) > b2<-summary(b1) > b3<-as.data.frame(b2$coefficients) > b4<-round(b3,3) > b4 > > #Instead of changing the industry in the subset I want to do it at once, so > I’ve thinking in doing a loop. Before I created an array to store my > coefficients: > > years<-c("1998","1999","2000","2001","2002","2003","2004","2005","2006","2007") > industry<-sort(unique(data$industry)) > coef<-c("Estimate.(Intercept)","Std. Error.(Intercept)","t > value.(Intercept)", "Pr(>|t|).(Intercept)", "Estimate.X1", "Std. > Error.X1","t value.X1", "Pr(>|t|).X1", "Estimate.X2", "Std. Error.X2", "t > value.X2", "Pr(>|t|).X2") > coefs<-array("NaN",dim=c(10,12,4),dimnames=list(years,coef,industry)) > coefs > > #The loop that I’ve tried was: > for (k in industry){ > b1 <- lmList(Y~X1+X2| year, > na.action=na.omit,data,subset=industry==k) > b2<-summary(b1) > b3<-as.data.frame(b2$coefficients) > b4<-round(b3,3) > coefs[ , , k]<-b4[ , ] > } > > This doesn't work. The data in the reproducible example as many NaN but I > think this is not the problem. The problem is the R language. Could anyone > help me? > > Thanks in advance, > > Cecília (Universidade de Aveiro – Portugal) > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.