someone may know how to do what you asked but a get around is to not read the header in the file and assign your own variable names to each column. This way you have control and you don't worry about doing anything dynamically.
This is pretty easy if you are using read.table and probably also possible with other types of in "read in file" functions. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HelponR Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 8:18 PM To: r-help Subject: [R] can lm() automatically take in the independent variableswithout knowing the names in advance Hello! I am trying to use lm to do a simple regression but on a batch of different files. Each file has different column names. I know the first column is the dependent variable and all the rest are explanatory variables. The column names are in the first line of the file. But it seems lm() requires I know the variable names in advance? Is there a way to dynamically read in variable names and send to lm()? Many many thanks!!! Urania [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -------------------------------------------------------- This is not an offer (or solicitation of an offer) to buy/se...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.