[R] Substituting the extracted coefficients into the formula, exctracted from the result of nls()

[Primoz PETERLIN]

Thank you. I guess using predict() is probably closest to the R philosophy.

All the best,
Primož

2009/10/9 Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com>:
> Try with predict:
>
> plot(x, y)
> lines(0:10, predict(yfit, list(x = 0:10)))
>
> 2009/10/9 Primoz PETERLIN <primozz.peterlin at gmail.com>:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Here I come with another stupid question.  Suppose I want to use nls()
>> to fit a series of data (here modelled by generated points), then plot
>> the points and the fitting curve. I figured out some way of doing it:
>>
>> x <- runif(1:20, 0, 10)
>> y <- 0.1*x^2 - rep(3, length(x)) + rnorm(length(x), sd = 0.5)
>>
>> yfit <- nls(y ~ a*x^2 + b*x + c,
>>            start = list(a = 1, b = 1, c = 1),
>>            trace = TRUE)
>>
>> plot(x, y)
>> curve(coef(yfit)[1]*x^2 + coef(yfit)[2]*x + coef(yfit)[3], 0, 10,
>>      add = TRUE)
>>
>> However, this code is rather fortranesque, and most likely there
>> exists a much more elegant way in R/S, something like abline() which
>> exists for straight lines. Since both the formula and the coefficients
>> are available as a result of nls() (here as formula(yfit) and
>> coef(yfit)), I thought there ought to be a way something along the
>> following lines:
>>
>> f <- substitute(formula(yfit), as.list(coef(yfit)))
>> curve(f, ...)
>>
>> However, this snippet of code doesn't work. Am I thinking into the
>> correct direction at all?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Primož
>>
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>
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>
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