Try: w <- function(formula, ...) do.call("lm", list(formula, ...))
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr<f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > > I would like to write a front end for a modeling function, but run into > trouble when passing a weights argument. > > y <- 1:5 > x <- c(1,3,2,5,4) > > w <- function(formula, ...) lm(formula, ...) > lm(y ~ x, weights=c(1,1,1,2,2)) > w(y ~ x) > w(y ~ x, weights=c(1,1,1,2,2)) > > Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : > ..1 used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in > > w <- function(formula, weights, ...) lm(formula, weights=weights, ...) > w(y ~ x, weights=c(1,1,1,2,2)) > > Error in model.frame.default(formula = formula, weights = weights, > drop.unused.levels = TRUE) : > invalid type (closure) for variable '(weights)' > > Is there a general approach that solves this? Thanks -Frank > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > locale: > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > [8] base > > other attached packages: > [1] survival_2.35-4 > > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > ______________________________________________ > 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.