[R] function lm, get back the coefficient

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:21 PM, ascoquel <ascoquel at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a linear fit on my data and I would like to get back the a (time)
> coefficient ...
>
> mod<-lm(res_sql2$Lx0x~0+time)
> result<-data.frame()
> result<-coef(mod)
> print("result")
> print(result)
> [1] "result"
>      time
> 0.02530191
>
> But I would like just the value 0.02530191 ... I tried result$time but it
> doesn't work ...

 It is 'just the value'. It happens to be in a named vector with a
length of 1. You can do anything to it that you want to do with any
other number. Try result * 2, or sqrt(result).

 If it really annoys you, try names(result)=NULL to get rid of the name.

Barry