[R] A smal fitting problem...

[Michael Kubovy]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:42 AM, David Barron wrote:

> b = mean(y)
>
> On 08/12/06, Kåre Edvardsen <ked at nilu.no> wrote:
>> Dear R-helpers,
>>
>> I'm for sure not familiar with R, but it seem like a nice sofware  
>> tool,
>> so I've decided to try using it.
>>
>> Here is my problem I just can't figure out:
>>
>> I'd like to do least square fit of a straight horizontal (a = 0)  
>> line y
>> = ax + b through some data points
>>
>> x = (3,4,5,6,7,8)
>>
>> y = (0.62, 0.99, 0.83, 0.69, 0.76, 0.82)
>>
>> How would i find b?????

And in the context of linear models:
x <- 3:8
y <- c(0.62, 0.99, 0.83, 0.69, 0.76, 0.82)
lm(y ~ 1)
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