[R] residuals() with missing data, alignment to original data set

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

na.action=na.exclude does this.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 klaus.thul at infineon.com wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I have a data frame and want to do the following.
> 
> Do a regression of one variable versus another:
> 
> 	fit <- lm(a ~ b)
> 
> Then I would like to plot the residuals of this fit versus a third variable:
> 
> 	bwplot(residuals(fit) ~ group)
> 
> This fails, if a or b contain NAs, because the data in the residuals() -
> vector are not aligned anymore to the data in the original data frame.
> 
> Is there a way to solve this issue?
> 
> Regards and thanks for your help
> Klaus
> 
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