[R] lm: eval(parse(text=)) works on one side y/x but not on both?

[Matthieu Stigler]

Yes, was wondering that other code line did not change so much :-)

Thanks a lot!

2009/11/30 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>:
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> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> By the way, if you really do want to create the formula anyways then:
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>>    ix <- 1:2
>>    left <- paste(names(freeny)[ix], collapse = ",")
>>    fo <- as.formula(paste("cbind(", left, ") ~ ."))
>>    lm(fo, freeny)
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>> or possibly replace last line with:
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>>    eval(substitute(lm(fo, freeny))
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>> which will cause the formula to appear in the lm output.
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> This last line should have been:
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> This last line should have been:
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>  eval(substitute(lm(fo, freeny), list(fo = fo)))
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