Re: [R] Help with Names

2010-05-10 Thread Ravi Ramaswamy
There is definitely a difference. The pcr program is Principal Component Regression, but document says "The formula argument should be a symbolic formula of the form response ~ terms, where response is the name of the response vector or matrix (for multi-response models) and terms is the name of

Re: [R] Help with Names

2010-05-10 Thread jim holtman
You need to provide an 'str(yarn)' so we can see what the structure is. I don't know what the 'pcr' program is expecting, but it looks like from what you have provided that 'yarn' might be a dataframe and "X" is a vector. Look at the documentation for pcr and see what it expects. On Mon, May 10,

Re: [R] Help with Names

2010-05-10 Thread Ravi Ramaswamy
Jim - thanks. It worked, however pcr program is still not accepting it there is a sample yarn data loaded and I am comparing. My data looks like this X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X9 X10 X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X16 X17 1K

Re: [R] Help with Names

2010-05-10 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want: > x <- paste("X", 1:10, sep='') > x [1] "X1" "X2" "X3" "X4" "X5" "X6" "X7" "X8" "X9" "X10" > sub("X", "X.", x) [1] "X.1" "X.2" "X.3" "X.4" "X.5" "X.6" "X.7" "X.8" "X.9" "X.10" > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote: > Hi - a newbie qu

[R] Help with Names

2010-05-10 Thread Ravi Ramaswamy
Hi - a newbie question, if someone can please help I want to change X1, X2,,.to X.1 X.2 etc in the names below. I am using the Principal Component Regression function (pcr) and it seems to want it this way > datap3.pcr <- pcr(water ~ X, 10, data = datap3, Validation ="cv") Error in mode