[R] Subsetting/modifying a symbolic formula

[Bryan Hanson]

Thanks Gabor, you taught me two useful things: all.vars, and the fact that a
formula object always has length 3.  Problem solved.  Bryan


On 10/21/09 11:57 AM, "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is one way:
> 
>> fo <- y ~ f1 * f2
>> one.x <- lapply(all.vars(fo[[3]]), function(x) { fo[[3]] <- as.name(x); fo })
>> one.x
> [[1]]
> y ~ f1
> 
> [[2]]
> y ~ f2
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bryan Hanson <hanson at depauw.edu> wrote:
>> Hello All..
>> 
>> Please consider the following:
>> 
>> y <- rnorm(20, mean = 10)
>> f1 <- as.factor(rep(c("A", "B", "B", "A"), 5))
>> f2 <- as.factor(rep(c("C", "D"), 10))
>> testdata <- data.frame(y, f1, f2)
>> 
>> testFunc <- function(formula, data, ...) {
>> #    mf <- model.frame(formula, data)
>>    kw.res <- kruskal.test(formula, data)
>>    }
>> 
>> res <- testFunc(y ~ f1 * f2, testdata)
>> 
>> Which works perfectly well.  Now, I would like to do some other tests which
>> allow only one factor, for instance wilcox.test.  So, I would like to modify
>> my formula so that it reads y ~ f1 or y ~ f2, then conduct more tests.  What
>> is the smart way to subset or modify an existing symbolic formula?  I have
>> been staring at the attributes of res and mf (commented out currently) but
>> these are nested in a way I find difficult to extract.  ?terms,
>> ?terms.formula, ?formula etc all discuss these attributes but as I said, it
>> seems a bit impenetrable.  RSiteSearch("symbolic formula") returns too many
>> answers.  No doubt I am missing the obvious, as this is my first foray into
>> using formulas in my own functions.
>> 
>> TIA, Bryan
>> *************
>> Bryan Hanson
>> Acting Chair
>> Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
>> DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA
>> 
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.10.0 RC (2009-10-19 r50172)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] datasets  tools     grid      utils     stats     graphics  grDevices
>> methods
>> [9] base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>>  [1] ggplot2_0.8.3      reshape_0.8.3      proto_0.3-8        mvbutils_22.0
>>  [5] ChemoSpec_1.2      lattice_0.17-25    mvoutlier_1.4      plyr_0.1.8
>>  [9] RColorBrewer_1.0-2 chemometrics_0.4   som_0.3-4
>> robustbase_0.4-5
>> [13] rpart_3.1-45       pls_2.1-0          pcaPP_1.7          mvtnorm_0.9-7
>> [17] nnet_7.2-48        mclust_3.2         MASS_7.2-48        lars_0.9-7
>> [21] e1071_1.5-19       class_7.2-48
>> 
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