Gordon, Alan wrote on 01/24/2012 09:15:31 AM: > Dear R users, > > I'm a new user to R and have a data set consisting of a number of > variables (in a data frame). I wish to carry out a regression > analysis of the first variable against all the rest in turn. I have > used the following code to do this > > dd<-read.table("for loop.txt",header=T) > for (j in 2:5) print(summary(lm(formula = dd[,1] ~ dd[,j]))) > > However, although it produces all the analyses that I want, the > output is annotated with dd[,1] and dd[,j] rather than the actual > variable names. Is there any way around this? > > Best wishes, > Alan.
Try this: for (j in 2:5) { model <- paste("lm(formula =", names(dd[1]), "~", names(dd[j]), ", data = dd)") print(summary(eval(parse(text=model)))) } Jean [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.