[R] coef names in lm

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Wed Sep 10 22:28:45 CEST 2003


If you coerce "design" into a data frame and then do

lm.1 <- lm(response ~ . - 1, data=design, ...)

that should work.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Eid [mailto:jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:28 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] coef names in lm
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> I am interested in finding out how to change the names of 
> coefficients in the lm function. I have a design matrix which 
> I called "design" where each variate has its own name. 
> However when I issue the command:
> 
> lm.1<-lm(response~design-1, weights=some.weights)
> 
> and follow it with:
> 
> summary(lm.1)
> 
> it seems to paste as a character the names of the variates
> with design i.e I have something like:
> 
> designAge
> designPlace
> designOccupation
> ...
> as names of coefficients and instead I just wanted to be
> it seems to do
> Age
> Place
> Occupation.
> 
> P.S.. the reason I need this is because I am using the xtable 
> library to turn output into latex tables and do not want to 
> manually delete each and every single "design" word in the 
> coefficients name vector.
> 
> Thank you so much for any feedback,
> 
> Jean Eid
> 
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