[Rd] bug in dummy.coef.lm? (PR#1048)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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?

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