[R] Simultaneously summarizing many models

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Another option:

lapply(ls(patt="^m[0-9]"), function(model)summary(get(model)))

On 22/02/2008, Christoph Scherber
<Christoph.Scherber at agr.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
>  Let´s say I have 10 models, each named m1,m2,m3..., and I would like to summarize them automatically
>  and simultaneously  - e.g., to extract parameter estimates later on from all models; how can I do that?
>
>  I have tried:
>
>  x=1:10 #this creates some example data
>  y=rnorm(10)
>
>  m1=lm(x~y)
>  m2=lm(x~1)
>
>  sum.lms=function(x)summary(paste("m",x,sep=""))
>  sum.lms(1:2)
>
>  but the paste() function always returns "m1" "m2" in quotation marks instead of m1 m2
>
>  Do you know a way around this? I guess I would need to use expression() or substitute() but I don´t
>  know how to construct m1, m2... without the quotation marks.
>
>  Thanks very much for your help!
>
>  Best wishes,
>
>  Christoph
>
>
>  (using R 2.5.1 on Windows XP SP2)
>
>
>
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