[R] macro facility in R

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
To: "John Sorkin" <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [R] macro facility in R


> Try this:
>
> # test data
> set.seed(1)
> mat <- matrix(rnorm(900), nc = 9)
> colnames(mat) <- letters[1:9]
> DF <- as.data.frame(mat)
>
> # run lm's and display coefs
> for(i in seq(1, 5, 2)) {
> dat <- cbind(z = DF[,i] - DF[,i+1], DF[7:9])
> Coef <- coef(lm(z ~., dat))
> cat("y: DF[,", i, "] - DF[,", i+1, "], coef: ", Coef, "\n")
> }
>

In case of lm(), this could also be written as:

y <- mat[, c(1, 3, 5)] - mat[, c(2, 4, 6)]
x <- mat[, 7:9]
lm(y ~ x)


Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Biostatistical Centre
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Catholic University of Leuven

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>
>
> On 7/3/06, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>> R 2.2 on windows XP
>> I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns 
>> represent
>> independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would 
>> like
>> to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables,
>> changing only the dependent variable, e.g.
>> y1-y2=x1+x2+x3
>> y3-y4=x1+x2+x3
>> y5-y6=x1+x2+x3, etc.
>> I know I can write a function to perform the analyses, however in 
>> order
>> to make the analyses easy to do, I really need a macro scripting
>> language that will allow preprocessing of the function and 
>> substitution
>> of macro variables with parameters passed to the macro, i.e. I need
>> someting akin to the macro facility in SAS. Is there a macro 
>> facility
>> that I can use with R? I have tried help.search("macro") and did 
>> not
>> have any success.
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC,
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper OAIC,
>> University of Maryland Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and
>> Baltimore VA Center Stroke of Excellence
>>
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine
>> Division of Gerontology
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center
>> 10 North Greene Street
>> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
>> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
>>
>> 410-605-7119
>> jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu
>>
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