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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:13 AM, McLovin <dave_dec...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am very new to R. I am hoping to create formulas and assign them to > locations within an array (or matrix, if it will work). > > Here's a simplified example of what I'm trying to do: > > form.arr <- array(31,5,3) > for (i in seq(from=1, to=31, by=1)) { > for (j in seq(from=1, to=5, by=1)) { > form.arr[i,j,] <- as.formula(y~1+2) > } > } > > which results in this error: > Error in form.arr[i, j, ] <- as.formula(y ~ 1 + 2) : > incorrect number of subscripts > > fm <- y ~ 1 + 2 > class(fm) [1] "formula" # Let's investigate the fm object a little further... > str(fm) Class 'formula' length 3 y ~ 1 + 2 ..- attr(*, ".Environment")=<environment: R_GlobalEnv> > fm[1] `~`() > fm[2] y() > fm[3] 1 + 2() The reason I had made the 3rd dimension of the array size 3 is because > that's the length R tells me that formula is. > True, but... > sapply(fm, class) [1] "name" "name" "call" so the classes of the components of the formula are not the same. An array requires that each element of the array have the same class. When I had tried to do this using a matrix, using this code: > > form.mat <- matrix(31,5,3) > for (i in seq(from=1, to=31, by=1)) { > for (j in seq(from=1, to=5, by=1)) { > form.mat[i,j] = as.formula(y~1+2) > } > } > > I was told: > > Error in form.mat[i, j] = as.formula(y ~ 1 + 2) : > number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length > You're trying to assign a three-element object to a single subscript of a matrix - R is (correctly) telling you that doesn't compute. > > My question is: is it possible to assign formulas within a matrix or > array? If so, how? thanks....@real.com > I think you might have better luck trying to assign formulas to list components, since the classes of the components of a formula are not the same. For this reason, you can't cram them into arrays or matrices for the reason given above. HTH, Dennis > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Assign-Formulas-to-Arrays-or-Matrices-tp2279136p2279136.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.