[R] problem with lm, and summary.lm

Tolga Uzuner tolga.uzuner at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 00:18:47 CET 2008


Many thanks Gabor, as always, much appreciated.
Regards,
Tolga

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> R has introduced a new function xtfrm and in order for zoo to
> work with it there must be an xtfrm zoo method.  The development
> version of zoo has such a method but its not yet released.  Try this:
>
> xtfrm.zoo <- coredata
>
> and then run your code.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Tolga Uzuner <tolga.uzuner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dear Gabor,
>>
>> Many thanks. That snippet of code also works for me (below). I am currently
>> on 2.8.0.
>>
>> However, it continues to fail on the specific data I am using. I have
>> attached the data in data.RData, attached here. If you save this file into
>> the working directory and run the following, that should illustrate the
>> problem.
>>
>> library(zoo)
>> load("data.RData")
>> regrlm<-lm(foo~bar+baz)
>> regrlm
>> summary(regrlm)
>>
>> If you get the chance, would be interested to see if it fails for you as
>> well.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Tolga
>>
>> ############ Gabor's code ####################
>>     
>>> library(zoo)
>>> z <- 1:10
>>> x <- z*z
>>> y <- x*z
>>> lm(z ~ x + y)
>>>       
>> Call:
>> lm(formula = z ~ x + y)
>>
>> Coefficients:
>> (Intercept) x y
>> 1.24700 0.20194 -0.01164
>>
>>     
>>> summary(lm(z ~ x + y))
>>>       
>> Call:
>> lm(formula = z ~ x + y)
>>
>> Residuals:
>> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
>> -0.43730 -0.14095 0.01808 0.19070 0.26702
>>
>> Coefficients:
>> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
>> (Intercept) 1.246998 0.179253 6.957 0.000220 ***
>> x 0.201943 0.015878 12.718 4.3e-06 ***
>> y -0.011642 0.001579 -7.375 0.000153 ***
>> ---
>> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
>>
>> Residual standard error: 0.2598 on 7 degrees of freedom
>> Multiple R-squared: 0.9943, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9926
>> F-statistic: 607.6 on 2 and 7 DF, p-value: 1.422e-08
>>
>>     
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>       
>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lpSolve_5.6.4 leaps_2.7 nortest_1.0
>> [4] numDeriv_2006.4-1 bcp_2.1 snow_0.3-3
>> [7] fArma_270.74 fBasics_280.74 timeSeries_280.78
>> [10] timeDate_280.80 PerformanceAnalytics_0.9.7.1 tseries_0.10-16
>> [13] quadprog_1.4-11 vars_1.4-0 urca_1.1-7
>> [16] MASS_7.2-44 MSBVAR_0.3.2 coda_0.13-3
>> [19] lattice_0.17-15 xtable_1.5-4 KernSmooth_2.22-22
>> [22] RODBC_1.2-3 corrgram_0.1 nlme_3.1-89
>> [25] lmtest_0.9-21 car_1.2-9 strucchange_1.3-4
>> [28] sandwich_2.1-0 zoo_1.5-4
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.8.0 tools_2.8.0
>>     
>>
>> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>     
>>> Try upgrading to R 2.8.0 patched.  This works for me
>>> using R 2.8.0 patched from Nov 10th:
>>>
>>> library(zoo)
>>> z <- 1:10
>>> x <- z*z
>>> y <- x*z
>>> lm(z ~ x + y)
>>> summary(lm(z ~ x + y))
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> packageDescription("zoo")$Version
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> [1] "1.5-4"
>>>
>>>       
>>>> R.version.string # Vista
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> [1] "R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-11-10 r46884)"
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Tolga Uzuner <tolga.uzuner at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dear R Users,
>>>>
>>>> I am having a weird problem. I have three zoo time series, foo, bar and
>>>> baz.
>>>> I run a simple linear regression with foo as the dependent and bar+baz as
>>>> independents. Even though the regression runs fine, summary seems to
>>>> fail.The code is below. I am happy to send the data along. I am on R
>>>> 2.8.0
>>>> and Windows XP SP2. Traceback (below, a ton of numbers cut out to make it
>>>> readable but I can provide the data). reveals the problem is in a
>>>> function
>>>> called gt. sessioninfo is at the bottom.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions ? I upgraded to 2.8.0 this morning after replaced 2.7.1
>>>> and
>>>> I almost feel the new version is at fault but I could be inferring too
>>>> much...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Tolga
>>>>
>>>> cooks.distance also reveals the same problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> length(foo)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] 258
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> length(foo)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] 258
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> length(bar)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] 258
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> length(baz)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] 258
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> regrlm<-lm(foo~bar+baz)
>>>>> regrlm
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Call:
>>>> lm(formula = foo ~ bar + baz)
>>>>
>>>> Coefficients:
>>>> (Intercept)          bar          baz   1082.39        12.72    -20176.67
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> summary(regrlm)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Call:
>>>> lm(formula = foo ~ bar + baz)
>>>>
>>>> Residuals:
>>>> Error in if (xi == xj) 0L else if (xi > xj) 1L else -1L :
>>>>  argument is of length zero
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> traceback()
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> 19: .gt(c(145.181456007549, 118.279525850693, 111.250750147955,
>>>> 89.1393551953539,
>>>> MANY MANY NUMBERS
>>>>  -67.9948569260507, -146.080176235300), 250L, 246L)
>>>> 18: switch(ties.method, average = , min = , max = .Internal(rank(x[!nas],
>>>>      ties.method)), first = sort.list(sort.list(x[!nas])), random =
>>>> sort.list(order(x[!nas],
>>>>      stats::runif(sum(!nas)))))
>>>> 17: rank(x, ties.method = "min", na.last = "keep")
>>>> 16: as.vector(rank(x, ties.method = "min", na.last = "keep"))
>>>> 15: xtfrm.default(x)
>>>> 14: xtfrm(x)
>>>> 13: FUN(X[[1L]], ...)
>>>> 12: lapply(z, function(x) if (is.object(x)) xtfrm(x) else x)
>>>> 11: order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing)
>>>> 10: `[.zoo`(x, order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing))
>>>> 9: x[order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing)]
>>>> 8: sort.default(x, partial = unique(c(lo, hi)))
>>>> 7: sort(x, partial = unique(c(lo, hi)))
>>>> 6: quantile.default(resid)
>>>> 5: quantile(resid)
>>>> 4: structure(quantile(resid), names = nam)
>>>> 3: print.summary.lm(list(call = lm(formula = foo ~ bar + baz), terms =
>>>> foo ~
>>>>     bar + baz, residuals = c(145.181456007549, 118.279525850693,
>>>> MANY MANY NUMBERS   -97.6817272270226, -101.621851940748,
>>>> -67.9948569260507,
>>>> -146.080176235300
>>>>  ), coefficients = c(1082.39330190496, 12.7191319384837,
>>>> -20176.6660075191,
>>>>  36.7646530199551, 0.752346859475059, 1097.00127070372, 29.4411401439708,
>>>>  16.9059414262171, -18.3925639343844, 5.30095123419022e-84,
>>>> 1.60626441787295e-43,
>>>>  1.15247513614373e-48), aliased = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE), sigma =
>>>> 90.0587318356495,
>>>>     df = c(3L, 255L, 3L), r.squared = 0.767559392535633, adj.r.squared =
>>>> 0.765736328947677,
>>>>     fstatistic = c(421.027219021081, 2, 255), cov.unscaled =
>>>> c(0.166651523684348,
>>>>     -0.00308410770161002, -3.08083131687658, -0.00308410770161002,
>>>>     6.9788613558326e-05, 0.0263943284503598, -3.08083131687658,
>>>>     0.0263943284503598, 148.375640597725)))
>>>> 2: print(list(call = lm(formula = foo ~ bar + baz), terms = foo ~
>>>>     bar + baz, residuals = c(145.181456007549, 118.279525850693,
>>>> MANY MANY NUMBERS
>>>>  -97.6817272270226, -101.621851940748, -67.9948569260507,
>>>> -146.080176235300
>>>>  ), coefficients = c(1082.39330190496, 12.7191319384837,
>>>> -20176.6660075191,
>>>>  36.7646530199551, 0.752346859475059, 1097.00127070372, 29.4411401439708,
>>>>  16.9059414262171, -18.3925639343844, 5.30095123419022e-84,
>>>> 1.60626441787295e-43,
>>>>  1.15247513614373e-48), aliased = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE), sigma =
>>>> 90.0587318356495,
>>>>     df = c(3L, 255L, 3L), r.squared = 0.767559392535633, adj.r.squared =
>>>> 0.765736328947677,
>>>>     fstatistic = c(421.027219021081, 2, 255), cov.unscaled =
>>>> c(0.166651523684348,
>>>>     -0.00308410770161002, -3.08083131687658, -0.00308410770161002,
>>>>     6.9788613558326e-05, 0.0263943284503598, -3.08083131687658,
>>>>     0.0263943284503598, 148.375640597725)))
>>>> 1: print(list(call = lm(formula = foo ~ bar + baz), terms = foo ~
>>>>     bar + baz, residuals = c(145.181456007549, 118.279525850693,
>>>> MANY MANY NUMBERS   -97.6817272270226, -101.621851940748,
>>>> -67.9948569260507,
>>>> -146.080176235300
>>>>  ), coefficients = c(1082.39330190496, 12.7191319384837,
>>>> -20176.6660075191,
>>>>  36.7646530199551, 0.752346859475059, 1097.00127070372, 29.4411401439708,
>>>>  16.9059414262171, -18.3925639343844, 5.30095123419022e-84,
>>>> 1.60626441787295e-43,
>>>>  1.15247513614373e-48), aliased = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE), sigma =
>>>> 90.0587318356495,
>>>>     df = c(3L, 255L, 3L), r.squared = 0.767559392535633, adj.r.squared =
>>>> 0.765736328947677,
>>>>     fstatistic = c(421.027219021081, 2, 255), cov.unscaled =
>>>> c(0.166651523684348,
>>>>     -0.00308410770161002, -3.08083131687658, -0.00308410770161002,
>>>>     6.9788613558326e-05, 0.0263943284503598, -3.08083131687658,
>>>>     0.0263943284503598, 148.375640597725)))
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>>>> Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>>>> Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] lpSolve_5.6.4                leaps_2.7                  [3]
>>>> nortest_1.0
>>>>                 numDeriv_2006.4-1          [5] bcp_2.1
>>>>  snow_0.3-3                 [7] fArma_270.74
>>>> fBasics_280.74
>>>>            [9] timeSeries_280.78            timeDate_280.80
>>>>  [11]
>>>> PerformanceAnalytics_0.9.7.1 tseries_0.10-16            [13]
>>>> quadprog_1.4-11
>>>>             vars_1.4-0                 [15] urca_1.1-7
>>>> MASS_7.2-44                [17] MSBVAR_0.3.2                 coda_0.13-3
>>>>           [19] lattice_0.17-15              xtable_1.5-4
>>>> [21]
>>>> KernSmooth_2.22-22           RODBC_1.2-3                [23] corrgram_0.1
>>>>              nlme_3.1-89                [25] lmtest_0.9-21
>>>>  car_1.2-9                  [27] strucchange_1.3-4
>>>>  sandwich_2.1-0
>>>>            [29] zoo_1.5-4
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] grid_2.8.0  tools_2.8.0
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>>>>         
>>>       
>>     
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