[R] Sorting data for multiple regressions

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, R has a by() function that does what you want, and its help page 
contains an example of doing regression by group.

(There are other ways.)

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Paul Young wrote:

> So I am trying to perform a robust regression (fastmcd in the robust
> package) on a dataset and I want to perform individual regressions based

fastmcd does not do regression ... or I would have adapted the ?by 
example to show you.

> on the groups within the data.  We have over 300 sites and we want to
> perform a regression based on the day of week and the hour for every
> site.  I was wondering if anyone knows of a "'by' command similar to the
> one used in SAS that automatically groups the data for the regressions.
> If not, does anyone have any tips on how to split the data into smaller
> sets and then perform the regression on each set.  I am new to R, so I
> don't know all of the common work arounds and such.  At the moment the
> only method I can think of is to split the data using condition
> statements and manually running the regression on each set.  Thanks or
> your help
>
> -Paul


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