Hello,

Could there be clarification added to glm's documentation? In contrast, glmnet 
leaves no ambiguity about what it expects for response.

glm:  y: is a vector of observations of length n
glmnet: y: For family="binomial" should be either a factor with two levels, or 
a two-column matrix of counts or proportions (the second column is treated as 
the target class). For family="multinomial", can be a nc>=2 level factor, or a 
matrix with nc columns of counts or proportions. For either "binomial" or 
"multinomial", if y is presented as a vector, it will be coerced into a factor.

"a vector of observations" doesn't really narrow it down much. The warning 
emitted when y a is vector of proportions isn't particularly informative, 
either.

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Dario Strbenac
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia
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