[R] how to run linear regression models at once

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Jan 10 20:22:42 CET 2011


On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:29 PM, wangwallace wrote:

>
> hey, Dennis,
>
> I applied your syntax into my data frame with different variable  
> names.
> Specifically, I replaced y1 and y2, with ocbi and ocbo. I got the  
> following
> error message. Could you please explain why would this happen? Again,
> thanks!
>
>>
for(i in 1:5){fm1<-as.formula(paste('ocbi',ms[i],sep='~'))  fm2<- 
as.formula(paste('ocbo',ms[i],sep'~'))
>
> Error: unexpected string constant in:
> "for(i in 1:5){fm1<-as.formula(paste('ocbi',ms[i],sep='~'))

When you get a message like that it is going to be a missing  
<something>, usually right near the end of the presented string in the  
error message,
  ,,, and in your case it is a missing "=" sign,

> fm2<-as.formula(paste('ocbo',ms[i],sep'~'"
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David Winsemius, MD
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