[R] variables as arguments in formulae in aov?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try something like this:

 for(i in 1:4) print(summary(lm(iris[,i] ~., iris[,-i])))


for(i in 1:4) print(lm(y ~ Species, data.frame(y = iris[,i], Species =
iris[,5])))


On 3/28/06, Colm Connolly <colmconn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if you could help me with (what is surely) a simple R question?
>
> I've written a simple R script (attached) to perform multiple ANOVAs
> on the columns in a table loaded in from a a file (also attached). I
> loop through the list of columns for which I want to perform the
> ANOVAs, storing the column name in a variable. When I try to perform
> the ANOVA using the variable name as a reference to the column name R
> complains as follows:
> Error in the model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames,
> extras, extranames, :
>        invalid variable type
>
> The line causing the problem is the first line inside the for loop.
> The question is what have I done wrong? Is there a better way of doing
> the ANOVAs?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bye,
>
> Colm.
>
>
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