[R] basic question re lm() [Broadcast]

[Liaw, Andy]

lm(data1) should work just fine.  E.g.,

R> data1 <- data.frame(v1=rnorm(10), v2=rnorm(10), v3=rnorm(10))
R> lm(data1)

Call:
lm(formula = data1)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)           v2           v3  
     0.5746       0.3363      -0.5549  

Andy

From: r user
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> I am using R in a Windows environment.
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> I have a basic question regarding lm().
> 
> I have a dataframe "data1" with ncol=w.
> 
> I know that my dependent variable is in column1.
> 
> Is there a way to write the regression formula so that I can 
> use columns 2 thru w as my independent variables?
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> 
> 
> e.g. something like:  " lm(data1[,1] ~ data1[,2:w] ) "
> 
> Thanks
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