Hi, don' t understand why the function fomula have this error, i enclose the parameter "a" with the function I() Thank Ruben x<-1:5 y<-c( 2 ,4 , 6 , 8 ,11) formu<-y~I(a*x) form<-formula(formu) dummy<-data.frame(x=x,y=y) fm<-lm(form,data=dummy) Error in unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x))) : Object "a" not found