[Rd] bug in dummy.coef.lm? (PR#1048)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:56:02 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> Hi -
> I'm running R 1.3.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> > rm(x, y, z)
> > df <- data.frame(x=1:20,y=1:20,z=factor(1:20 <= 10))
>
> dummy.coef falls over:
>
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ z * poly(x,1), data=df))
> Error in poly(x, 1): Object "x" not found
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ z * I(x), data=df))
> Error in unique(c("AsIs", class(x))): Object "x" not found
>
> but works OK with:
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ z * x, data=df))
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ poly(x,1), data=df))
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ I(x), data=df))
>
> > x <- df$x
> > y <- df$y
> > z <- df$z
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ z * poly(x,1)))
> > dummy.coef.lm(lm(y ~ z * I(x)))
Not for me it doesn't ...
This is a known design problem: it's been like it for three years.
I think I know how to solve it ....
Note: ?dummy.coef says
There will be
little point in using `dummy.coef' for `contr.treatment'
contrasts, as the missing coefficients are by definition zero.
and what are the default contrasts in R?
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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