Thanks Gabor, you taught me two useful things: all.vars, and the fact that a formula object always has length 3. Problem solved. Bryan
On 10/21/09 11:57 AM, "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is one way: > >> fo <- y ~ f1 * f2 >> one.x <- lapply(all.vars(fo[[3]]), function(x) { fo[[3]] <- as.name(x); fo }) >> one.x > [[1]] > y ~ f1 > > [[2]] > y ~ f2 > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bryan Hanson <han...@depauw.edu> wrote: >> Hello All.. >> >> Please consider the following: >> >> y <- rnorm(20, mean = 10) >> f1 <- as.factor(rep(c("A", "B", "B", "A"), 5)) >> f2 <- as.factor(rep(c("C", "D"), 10)) >> testdata <- data.frame(y, f1, f2) >> >> testFunc <- function(formula, data, ...) { >> # mf <- model.frame(formula, data) >> kw.res <- kruskal.test(formula, data) >> } >> >> res <- testFunc(y ~ f1 * f2, testdata) >> >> Which works perfectly well. Now, I would like to do some other tests which >> allow only one factor, for instance wilcox.test. So, I would like to modify >> my formula so that it reads y ~ f1 or y ~ f2, then conduct more tests. What >> is the smart way to subset or modify an existing symbolic formula? I have >> been staring at the attributes of res and mf (commented out currently) but >> these are nested in a way I find difficult to extract. ?terms, >> ?terms.formula, ?formula etc all discuss these attributes but as I said, it >> seems a bit impenetrable. RSiteSearch("symbolic formula") returns too many >> answers. No doubt I am missing the obvious, as this is my first foray into >> using formulas in my own functions. >> >> TIA, Bryan >> ************* >> Bryan Hanson >> Acting Chair >> Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry >> DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA >> >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.10.0 RC (2009-10-19 r50172) >> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 >> >> locale: >> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] datasets tools grid utils stats graphics grDevices >> methods >> [9] base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] ggplot2_0.8.3 reshape_0.8.3 proto_0.3-8 mvbutils_22.0 >> [5] ChemoSpec_1.2 lattice_0.17-25 mvoutlier_1.4 plyr_0.1.8 >> [9] RColorBrewer_1.0-2 chemometrics_0.4 som_0.3-4 >> robustbase_0.4-5 >> [13] rpart_3.1-45 pls_2.1-0 pcaPP_1.7 mvtnorm_0.9-7 >> [17] nnet_7.2-48 mclust_3.2 MASS_7.2-48 lars_0.9-7 >> [21] e1071_1.5-19 class_7.2-48 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.