[R] only actual variable names in all.names()

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

all.vars(substitute(y ~ poly(x, k) + z, list(k = NA)))

Or if you don't want substitute the var k:

gsub(".*\\((.*),.*", "\\1", rownames(attr(terms(y ~ poly(x, k) + z),
'factors')))


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Vito Muggeo (UniPa)
<vito.muggeo at unipa.it> wrote:
> dear all,
> When I use all.vars(), I am interest in extracting only the variable names..
> Here a simple example
>
> all.vars(as.formula(y~poly(x,k)+z))
>
> returns
> [1] "y" "x" "k" "z"
>
> and I would like to obtain
> "y" "x" "z"
>
> Where is the trick?
>
> many thanks
> vito
>
>
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