[R] simple questions

[Chuck Cleland]

   If I understand what you are after, here is an example with 
two response variables and two factors:

 > mydata <- data.frame(Y1 = rnorm(20), Y2 = rnorm(20),
   FACT1 = rep(c("A", "B"), 10), FACT2 = rep(c("X", "Y"),
   c(10,10)))

 > my.aov <- aov(cbind(Y1, Y2) ~ FACT1*FACT2, data = mydata)

 > summary(my.aov)

  Response Y1 :
             Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
FACT1        1  0.0382  0.0382  0.0292 0.8664
FACT2        1  0.1248  0.1248  0.0954 0.7613
FACT1:FACT2  1  0.0616  0.0616  0.0471 0.8309
Residuals   16 20.9203  1.3075

  Response Y2 :
             Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
FACT1        1  0.1634  0.1634  0.1660 0.6891
FACT2        1  0.5685  0.5685  0.5777 0.4583
FACT1:FACT2  1  0.0167  0.0167  0.0170 0.8980
Residuals   16 15.7444  0.9840

The same approach will work with more response variables and more 
factors.

Broeckling, Corey wrote:
> I am a new user or R, and am so far very impressed with its capabilities.
> However, I have no programming experience, and am having some issues in
> trying to tell the software what I want done.  There are basically two
> issues which I am currently grappling with.  The first, I have a data
> matrix, with two factors and dozens of response variables.  I am interested
> on conducting ANOVAs on each of the variables individually (in addition to
> doing multivariate analyses).  I have been trying to get the AOV function to
> recognized a list of variables, but always receive error messages.  I am
> sure there is a way to do this, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
> Suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
> ...

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