[R] Plotting lm() attributes

[Murray Jorgensen]

Suppose you fit a linear model

 > model.1 ~ lm(v1 ~ ..., data=myframe)

and v2 is some other column of myframe typically not in the model. You 
will often want to try

 > plot(v2, model.1$residuals)

but this will fail if there are NAs in the response v1 as 
model.1$residuals has length equal to the number of nonmissing values in 
  v1. I suppose

 > plot(v2[!is.na(v1)], model.1$residuals)

does the job, but it seems irritating that model.1$residuals, does not 
have length agreeing with the number of rows in the data frame. It would 
be even more irritating for model.1$fitted.values, where the removed 
elements would often have nonmissing values.

Murray

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