[R] GLM problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, laurans at roazhon wrote:

> When I add the following instruction : make.link(log) I have an error
> that I don't understand.
>
> model<-glm(spa~an, family=gaussian, make.link(log))
> error in as.vector(x, "double"): cannot coerce to vector)
>
> If someone can help,  thanks

Something certainly could.  It's the help page which says

Arguments:

    link: character or numeric; one of `"logit"', `"probit"',
          `"cloglog"', `"identity"', `"log"',  `"sqrt"',  `"1/mu^2"',
          `"inverse"', or number, say lambda resulting in power link mu
          ^ lambda.

log is a function: I think you meant make.link("log").  However, that
is not the only error: I believe you meant

model <- glm(spa ~ an, family=gaussian("log"))

The fourth argument of glm is `data'.  (In this case you will get away
with gaussian(log).

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