Note that the formula uptake ~. will do the same thing so its not clear
how useful this facility really is.
On 7/16/07, Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16-Jul-07 14:16:10, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > Following up on your comments it seems formula.data.frame just creates
> > a formula whose lhs is the first column name and whose rhs is made up
> > of the remaining column names. It ignores the "formula" attribute.
> >
> > In fact, CO2 does have a formula attribute but its not extracted by
> > formula.data.frame:
> >
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > uptake ~ conc | Plant
> >> formula(CO2)
> > Plant ~ Type + Treatment + conc + uptake
>
> Indeed! And, following up yet again on my own follow-up comment:
>
> library(combinat)
>
> for(j in (1:4)){
> for(i in combn((1:4),j,simplify=FALSE)){
> print(formula(CO2[,c(5,i)]))
> }
> }
> uptake ~ Plant
> uptake ~ Type
> uptake ~ Treatment
> uptake ~ conc
> uptake ~ Plant + Type
> uptake ~ Plant + Treatment
> uptake ~ Plant + conc
> uptake ~ Type + Treatment
> uptake ~ Type + conc
> uptake ~ Treatment + conc
> uptake ~ Plant + Type + Treatment
> uptake ~ Plant + Type + conc
> uptake ~ Plant + Treatment + conc
> uptake ~ Type + Treatment + conc
> uptake ~ Plant + Type + Treatment + conc
>
> opening the door to automated fitting of all possible models
> (without interactions)!
>
> Now if only I could find out how to do the interactions as well,
> I would never need to think again!
>
> best wishes,
> Ted.
>
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