[R] finding out more about an object, e.g. lm

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at pdf.com
Tue Jul 5 17:58:37 CEST 2005


	  'methods(class="lm")' will identify all the "methods" (i.e., 
functions) that have been defined to do something with an object of 
class "lm".

	  'attributes(<and 'lm' object>)' may not be as good as "str" from some 
perspectives but can be useful from others.

	  spencer graves

Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> Sean O'Riordain wrote:
> 
>>?lm doesn't
>>give me the information
> 
> 
>   That's because the information has come from 'summary' (specifically 
> summary.lm).
> 
> ?summary.lm:
> 
> r.squared: R^2, the "fraction of variance explained by the model",
> 
>   - it also lists the other things of interest you can get from an lm 
> fitted object.
> 
> Baz
> 
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