[R] metaprogramming with lm

[Erik Iverson]

The special name "." may be used on the right side of the "~" operator, 
to stand for all the variables in a data.frame other than the response.

--John Chambers, Statistical Models in S, p. 101

So, if the y and Xi (in your case) were the only variables in mydata, then

lm(y ~ . , data = mydata)

would be of use.

Erik

June Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Say I want to make a multiple regression model with the following expression:
> 
> lm(y~x1 + x2 + x3 + ... + x_n,data=mydata)
> 
> It gets boring to type in the whole independent variables, in this
> case x_i. Is there any simple way to do the metaprogramming for this?
> (There are different cases where the names of the independent
> variables might sometimes have apparent patterns or not)
> 
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