[R] Error in gam?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> I'm having some problems using variable names containing spaces (using
> backticks) with gam (mgcv 0.9-6, R 1.8.1).  Some toy code to reproduce
> my problem is below.  Am I doing something wrong, or should I pass
> this bug on to Simon Wood? (Or do I need to rename my variables to get
> rid of the spaces?)

It's a problem of a sort that we've seen with several kinds of
modeling code.

Basically, the code appears to be using a deparse-paste-parse
technique and gets the backtick bit wrong. Probably, we should start
an effort to get things done right within base R first and only then
pester Simon and others.  In particular, I suspect we should supply a
replacement for the parse(paste("~", paste(terms, collapse="+")))
construction that doesn't have to go via the textual representation.

For now, I think you might want to rename variables and begone with
it...  


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