[Rd] problems extracting parts of a summary object [solved]

[Ross Boylan]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:52 -0600, tplate at cybermesa.com wrote:
> what's the output of:
> > summary(r$individual[[2]])$coef
> 
> my question was basically whether you were doing
> summary(r$individual[[2]])$coef
> or
> r$individual[[2]]$coef
> 
> (the second was what you appeared to be doing from your initial email)
> 
Doh!  Thank you; that was it.
This was interacting with another error, which is perhaps how I managed
to miss it.

Ross
> -- Tony Plate
> 
> On Mon, March 22, 2010 4:43 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:30 -0600, tplate at cybermesa.com wrote:
> >> Are you sure you're extracting the coefficients component of the summary
> >> object and not the lm object?
> >>
> >> Seems to work ok for me:
> >> > xm <- lm(y ~ x, data=data.frame(y=rnorm(20), x=rnorm(2)))
> >> > summary(xm)$coefficients
> >>             Estimate Std. Error  t value  Pr(>|t|)
> >> (Intercept) 1.908948   1.707145 1.118210 0.2781794
> >> x           1.292263   1.174608 1.100165 0.2857565
> >> > xm$coefficients
> >> (Intercept)           x
> >>    1.908948    1.292263
> >>
> >> -- Tony Plate
> >> class(summary(r$individual[[2]]))
> > [1] "summary.lm"
> > But maybe I'm not following the question.
> > Ross
> >
> >>
> >> On Mon, March 22, 2010 4:03 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> >> > summary(x), where x is the output of lm, produces the expectedd
> >> display,
> >> > including standard errors of the coefficients.
> >> >
> >> > summary(x)$coefficients produces a vector (x is r$individual[[2]]):
> >> >> r$individual[[2]]$coefficients
> >> > tX(Intercept)    tXcigspmkr        tXpeld    tXsmkpreve            mn
> >> > -2.449188e+04 -4.143249e+00  4.707007e+04 -3.112334e+01  1.671106e-01
> >> >    mncigspmkr        mnpeld    mnsmkpreve
> >> >  3.580065e+00  2.029721e+05  4.404915e+01
> >> >> class(r$individual[[2]]$coefficients)
> >> > [1] "numeric"
> >> >
> >> > rather than the expected matrix like object with a column for the
> >> se's.
> >> >
> >> > When I trace through the summary method, the coefficients value is a
> >> > matrix.
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to pull out the standard errors for some rearranged output.
> >> >
> >> > How can I do that?
> >> >
> >> > And what's going on?  I suspect this may be a namespace issue.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > Ross Boylan
> >> >
> >> > P.S. I would appreciate a cc because of some mail problems I'm having.
> >> >
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