Try this: all.vars(substitute(y ~ poly(x, k) + z, list(k = NA)))
Or if you don't want substitute the var k: gsub(".*\\((.*),.*", "\\1", rownames(attr(terms(y ~ poly(x, k) + z), 'factors'))) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Vito Muggeo (UniPa) <vito.mug...@unipa.it> wrote: > dear all, > When I use all.vars(), I am interest in extracting only the variable names.. > Here a simple example > > all.vars(as.formula(y~poly(x,k)+z)) > > returns > [1] "y" "x" "k" "z" > > and I would like to obtain > "y" "x" "z" > > Where is the trick? > > many thanks > vito > > > -- > ==================================== > Vito M.R. Muggeo > Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli' > Università di Palermo > viale delle Scienze, edificio 13 > 90128 Palermo - ITALY > tel: 091 23895240 > fax: 091 485726/485612 > http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.