[R] Getting lm() to work with a matrix

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this (note dot after ~):

lm(response[, 3] ~., as.data.frame(spectra.spec[, 2:20]))


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM, MikSmith <mike at hsm.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm fairly new to R and am trying to analyse some large spectral datasets
> using stepwise regression (fairly standard in this area). I have a field
> sampled dataset, of which a proportion has been held back for validation. I
> gather than step() needs to be fed a regression model and lm() can produce a
> multiple regression. I had thought something like:
>
> spectra.lm <- lm(response[,3]~spectra.spec[,2:20])
>
> might work but lm() doesnt appear to like being fed a range of columns. I
> suspect Ive missed something fairly fundamental here.....
>
> Any help much appreciated
>
> best wishes
>
> mike
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