Hello, at the Rgui command line I can easily remove a term from a fitted lm object, like
fit <- lm(y~x1+x2+x3, data=myData) update(fit, .~.-x1) However, I would like to do this in a function with term given as string, like removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { ??? } removeTerm(fit, "x1") but I can not fill the ???. I already tried removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { update(linModel, .~. - termName }, removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { update(linModel, .~. - as.name(termName) }, removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { update(linModel, .~. - eval(termName) }, removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { update(linModel, .~. - eval.parent(termName) }, removeTerm <- function(linModel, termName) { update(linModel, .~. - get(termName) }, but these attempts produce error messages. Can you advise me here? Kind regards, Karsten ______________________________________________ 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.