The result of proj() is not currently coerced to data.frame when requested. I use this capability pedagogically all the time. It did work when I wrote proj() for the Chambers and Hastie book, and it still works in S-Plus. A minimal repair is in the as.data.frame.aovproj definition below.
Rich > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 8.1 year 2008 month 12 day 22 svn rev 47281 language R version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) > ## using the example in ?aov utils::data(npk, package="MASS") npk.aov <- aov(yield ~ block + N * P + K, npk) proj(npk.aov) cbind(npk, proj(npk.aov)) as.data.frame.aovproj <- function(x, ...) as.data.frame(unclass(x), ...) cbind(npk, proj(npk.aov)) > cbind(npk, proj(npk.aov)) Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) : cannot coerce class "aovproj" into a data.frame > as.data.frame.aovproj <- function(x, ...) as.data.frame(unclass(x), ...) > cbind(npk, proj(npk.aov)) block N P K yield (Intercept) block N P K 1 1 0 1 1 49.5 54.875 -0.850 -2.808333 -0.5916667 -1.991667 .... ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel