[R] do glm with two data sets

Gavin Simpson gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Aug 18 17:00:12 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:38 -0400, Hu, Ying (NIH/NCI) wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> # read the two data sets
> e <- as.matrix(read.table("file1.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1))
> g <- as.matrix(read.table("file2.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1))
> # solution 
> d1<-data.frame(g[1,], e[1,])

This is redundant, as:

> fit<-glm(e[1,] ~ g[1,], data=d1)

and:

fit <- glm(e[1, ] ~ g[1, ])

are equivalent - you don't need data = d1 in this case, e.g:

e <- matrix(c(0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
e
g <- matrix(c(1.22, 1.34, 2.44, 2.33, 2.56, 2.56, 1.56, 1.99, 1.46),
ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
g
fit <- glm(e[1, ] ~ g[1, ])
fit

works fine.

> summary(fit)
> 
> I am not sure that is the best solution.

This seems a strange way of doing this. Why not:

pred <- g[1, ]
resp <- e[1, ]
fit <- glm(resp ~ pred)
fit

and do your subsetting outside the glm call - makes things clearer no?
Unless you plan to do many glm()s one per row of your two matrices. If
that is the case, then there are better ways of approaching this.

> Thanks again,
> 
> Ying

HTH

G

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Simpson [mailto:gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: Sundar Dorai-Raj
> Cc: Hu, Ying (NIH/NCI); r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] do glm with two data sets
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:22 -0500, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> > 
> > Hu, Ying (NIH/NCI) wrote:
> > > I have two data sets:
> > > File1.txt: 
> > > Name id1   id2   id3   ...
> > > N1    0     1     0     ...
> > > N2    0     1     1     ...
> > > N3    1     1     -1    ...
> > > ...
> > >  
> > > File2.txt:
> > > Group id1       id2       id3       ...
> > > G1       1.22     1.34     2.44     ...
> > > G2       2.33     2.56     2.56     ...
> > > G3       1.56     1.99     1.46     ...
> > > ...
> > > I like to do:
> > > x1<-c(0,1,0,...)
> > > y1<-c(1.22,1.34, 2.44, ...)
> > > z1<-data.frame(x,y)
> > > summary(glm(y1~x1,data=z1)
> > >  
> > > But I do the same thing by inputting the data sets from the two files
> > > e <- read.table("file1.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1)
> > > g <- read.table("file2.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1)
> > > e1<-exp[1,]
> > > g1<-geno[1,]
> > > d1<-data.frame(g, e)
> > > summary(glm(e1 ~ g1, data=d1))
> > >  
> > > the error message is 
> > > Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras,
> > > extranames,  : 
> > >         invalid variable type
> > > Execution halted
> > >  
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >  
> > > Ying
> 
> Hi Ying,
> 
> That error message is likely caused by having a data.frame on the right
> hand side (rhs) of the formula. You can't have a data.frame on the rhs
> of a formula and g1 is still a data frame even if you only choose the
> first row, e.g.:
> 
> dat <- as.data.frame(matrix(100, 10, 10))
> class(dat[1, ])
> [1] "data.frame"
> 
> You could try:
> 
> glm(e1 ~ ., data=g1[1, ])
> 
> and see if that works, but as Sundar notes, your post is a little
> difficult to follow, so this may not do what you were trying to achieve.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Gav
> 
> > 
> > You have several inconsistencies in your example, so it will be 
> > difficult to figure out what you are trying to accomplish.
> > 
> >  > e <- read.table("file1.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1)
> >  > g <- read.table("file2.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1)
> >  > e1<-exp[1,]
> > 
> > What's "exp"? Also it's dangerous to use an R function as a variable 
> > name. Most of the time R can tell the difference, but in some cases it 
> > cannot.
> > 
> >  > g1<-geno[1,]
> > 
> > What's "geno"?
> > 
> >  > d1<-data.frame(g, e)
> > 
> > d1 is now e and g cbind'ed together?
> > 
> >  > summary(glm(e1 ~ g1, data=d1))
> > 
> > Are "e1" and "g1" elements of "d1"? From what you've told us, I don't 
> > know where the error is occurring. Also, if you are having errors, you 
> > can more easily isolate the problem by doing:
> > 
> > fit <- glm(e1 ~ g1, data = d1)
> > summary(fit)
> > 
> > This will at least tell you the problem is in your call to "glm" and not 
> > "summary.glm".
> > 
> > --sundar
> > 
> > P.S. Please (re-)read the POSTING GUIDE. Most of the time you will 
> > figure out problems such as these on your own during the process of 
> > creating a reproducible example.
> > 
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