[R] Resampling to find Confidence intervals

[Ben Ward]

Hi, I'm doing some modelling (lm) for my 3rd year dissertation and I 
want to do some resampling, especially as I'm working with microbes, 
getting them to evolve resistance to antimicrobial compounds, and after 
each exposure I'm measuring the minimum concentration required to kill 
them (which I'm expecting to rise over time, or exposures), I have 5 
lineages per cleaner, and I'm using 2 cleaners(of different chemical 
origin, and it's these two different origins I'm interested in, or 
rather, and differences in concentration results between them). So the 
amount of data I get is small, hence my desire to resample. But thats 
not so important.

I have used help from Kaplans Book: Statistical Modelling A Fresh 
Approach, to get write the following code for my project:

samps = do(500)*
    coef(lm(MIC. ~ 1 + Challenge + Cleaner + Replicate, 
data=resample(ecoli)))
  sd(samps)

But the "resample" and "do" operators are functions specific to  a 
workspace that comes with the book, not a normal R setup. So I was 
thinking of ways I could achive the same result, or sort of result 
because the resample should be different each time, I think the 
following would work to the same effect:

resampled_ecoli = sample(ecoli, 500, replace=T)
coefs = (coef(lm(MIC. ~ 1 + Challenge + Cleaner + Replicate, 
data=resampled_ecoli)))
sd(coefs)

And then I can work out confidence intervals by multiplying the standard 
errors by 2.

Although I'm not used to doing this sort of operation in R so I don't 
want to do the wrong thing.
If anyon could tell me if that would work or what I need to do instead 
I'd be eternally greatful.

Thanks,
Ben Ward.