[R] Changing predictor order in lm()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

RSiteSearch("keep.order") gave me

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/14240.html

which has such an example, and points out another example is in 
demo(glm.vr).

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> can anyone provide a snippet of code to force the lm() to fit a model with
> terms in the formula in an arbitrary order?  I am interested in something
> like:
>
> lm(y ~ A * B + C, data=data)
>
> where the interaction of A and B should be in the formula before C.  My
> goal is to simplify my presentation of models using the anova() statement.
> I have found that this should be possible using the terms.formula()
> function, but if anyone has an example that would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
>
> Andrew Robinson
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