[R] Pearson's correlation coefficient?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Andrew C. Ward wrote:

> Matej, try the following
>    > cor.test(x,y)$estimate

or just cor(x, y).

> Quoting Matej Cepl <matej at ceplovi.cz>:
>
> > How do I get non-squared correlation coefficient in some more
> > sensible way than
> >
> > 	sqrt(summary(lm(y~x))$r.squared)?

That's lost the sign, BTW.

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