[R] Error using lm(z~x+y,data)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> I don't know why one version works and the other doesn't, but I've
> noticed problems in the past when using "data" as a variable name, and
> in fact even the first version fails for me when I type it exactly as
> you did.
> 
> I suspect the strange behaviour you saw is related to the fact that
> data is a matrix rather than a data.frame, and indeed everything is
> fine if I change your code to

I got it now: The problem is that eval accept an integer as its envir
argument (as in sys.call()) so lm and friends do too. If you pass a
numeric object, like a matrix, the first element is extracted and
coerced to integer. That'll explain why the behaviour changes when a
column is multiplied by 149...

The reason the example ever worked was that x,y,z from the global env.
got picked up.
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