[R] lm: how are polynomial functions interpreted?

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, cgw at witthoft.com wrote:

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matplot(1:100, lm(rnorm(100)~poly(1:100,4),x=T)$x ) # for example

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Ahem!

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