Hi R-helpers, I have a character object called dd that has 32 elements each of which is a model formula contained within quotation marks. Here's what it looks like:
> dd [1] "lm(y ~ 1,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X1,data=Cement)" [4] "lm(y ~ X2,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X3,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X4,data=Cement)" [7] "lm(y ~ X + X1,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X2,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X3,data=Cement)" [10] "lm(y ~ X + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X1 + X2,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X1 + X3,data=Cement)" [13] "lm(y ~ X1 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X2 + X3,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X2 + X4,data=Cement)" [16] "lm(y ~ X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X2,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X3,data=Cement)" [19] "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X2 + X3,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X2 + X4,data=Cement)" [22] "lm(y ~ X + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X1 + X2 + X3,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X1 + X2 + X4,data=Cement)" [25] "lm(y ~ X1 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X2 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X2 + X3,data=Cement)" [28] "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X2 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X2 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" [31] "lm(y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" "lm(y ~ X + X1 + X2 + X3 + X4,data=Cement)" I would like to convert this object into a list called Cand.models with 32 list elements each of which would contain one of the above model formulae. When I print the list, the models should run, so the first few elements of the list would look like this (see below output from a list I created by hand). Many thanks for any help you can provide! Mark >Cand.models [[1]] Call: lm(formula = y ~ 1, data = Cement) Coefficients: (Intercept) 95.42 [[2]] Call: lm(formula = y ~ X, data = Cement) Coefficients: (Intercept) X 82.308 1.874 [[3]] Call: lm(formula = y ~ X1, data = Cement) Coefficients: (Intercept) X1 81.479 1.869 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.