[R] curve() doesn't seem to use the whole range of x? And Error: longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 25/09/2016 9:10 AM, Matti Viljamaa wrote:
> Writing:
>
> bs["(Intercept)"]+bs["mies"]*0+bs["kouluB"]+bs["lka"]*lka+bs["kouluB:clka"]*clka
>
> i.e. without that being inside curve produces a vector of length 375.
>
> So now it seems that curve() is really skipping some lka-/x-values.

How could curve() know what the length of lka is?  You're telling it to 
set x to a sequence of values of length 101 (the default) from min(lka) 
to max(lka).  You never tell it to set x to lka.

curve() is designed to plot expressions or functions, not vectors.  If 
you actually want to plot line segments using your original data, use
lines().  (You'll likely need to sort your x values into increasing 
order if you do that, or you'll get a pretty ugly plot.)

Duncan Murdoch

>
>> On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:01, Matti Viljamaa <mviljamaa at kapsi.fi> wrote:
>>
>> I’m trying to plot regression lines using curve()
>>
>> The way I do it is:
>>
>> bs <- coef(fit2)
>>
>> and then for example:
>>
>> curve(bs["(Intercept)"]+bs["mies"]*0+bs["kouluB"]+bs["lka"]*x+bs["kouluB:clka"]*clka, from=min(lka), to=max(lka), add=TRUE, col='red')
>>
>> This above code runs into error:
>>
>> Error in curve(bs["(Intercept)"] + bs["mies"] * 0 + bs["kouluB"] + bs["lka"] *  :
>>  'expr' did not evaluate to an object of length 'n'
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In bs["(Intercept)"] + bs["mies"] * 0 + bs["kouluB"] + bs["lka"] *  :
>>  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>>
>> Which I’ve investigated might be related to the lengths of the different objects being multiplied or summed.
>> Taking length(g$x) or length(g$y) of
>>
>> g <- curve(bs["(Intercept)"]+bs["mies"]*0+bs["kouluB"]+bs["lka"]*x, from=min(lka), to=max(lka), add=TRUE, col='red')
>>
>> returns 101.
>>
>> However length(lka) is 375. But perhaps these being different is not the problem?
>>
>> I however do see that the whole range of lka is not plotted, for some reason. So how can I be sure
>> that it passes through all x-values in lka? And i.e. that the lengths of objects inside curve() are correct?
>>
>> What can I do?
>
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