[R] Help with contrast settings in glm and lm

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:14:21 +0100 (CET)
> From: Jesús María Frías Celayeta <iosu at ensia.inra.fr>
> 	I am trying to validate some R code that we have been porting from
> S (ellipse library) and now we are on the step of trying with some
> examples to see if the code gives the same results as in S. I have
> received some results from S-PLUS 4.5 help examples and I have some
> trouble reproducing them. Apparently S+ uses helbert contrasts in
> categorical variables as a default and R uses contrasts based in
> orthogonal polynomials. However, in R there exists contr.helmert and I
> would like to actually set R in a way that a regression procedure will use
> helmert type contrasts (as in S+), in order to have the same results. 
> 
> 	Is there a way to change the default contrasts used in regression
> (lm and glm) so that after it the regression uses those contrasts? I have
> tried options() with no too much sucess. I am probably loosing some page
> in the manual, so just in the case I excuse myself in advance. 

You need

options(contrasts=c("contr.helmert", "contr.poly"))

but you have been changing the wrong one.  The first is for unordered
factors, the second for ordered factors. The R help page does not say so, and
should: I have altered it to give the details and include this example.

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