[R] summary() within a function

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 uaca at alumni.uv.es wrote:

> 
> I have the following function
> 
> f <- function {
> 
> 	...
> 
> 	model <- lm(rttx[,1] ~ rttx[,2] + 0);
> 	summary(model);
> 
> 	...
> }
> 
> while summary(model) shows the summary if I execute the function line by line
> in the Command Line Interface, if I call f() summary is silent
> 
> how to solve it? or is there workaround?

You didn't do anything with the return value from summary(.lm).  You need 
to print() it, which happens automatically at the command line.

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