On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
I have formulae with coefficents that I would like to update.
However, I get some strange results. For example, see the following:
For the formula y ~ d+ 3*r+t
Did you really get meaningful results from that formula? Care to
provide an example? Maybe there is something more for me to learn.
I want to add a variable p, so
update(y~d+0*r+t, .~.+p)
In formulas the "*" operator is an interaction creator. so you told R
to make 0 + r + 0:r. Probably not what you thought you were doing. So
what were you trying to do anyway?
produces
y ~ d + t + p - 1
Which at least explains why you got the -1 (which in R formulas is
that same as +0).
If the coefficient is not 0, but rather, something else - say, 3,
What do you think you are accomplishing when you put a scalar
coefficient in the formula?
I get the following:
update(y~d+3*r+t, .~.+p)
Error in terms.formula(tmp, simplify = TRUE) :
invalid model formula in ExtractVars
Is there a way to do this,
or a different call I should be trying?
What you should be doing depends on what you want to happen.
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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