Thanks for the help! However, I just need to get pdCompSymm(~1 + Age)
without a tilde (~) at the beginning. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:34 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Gang Chen wrote: > >> A random effect formulation for R package nlme is read in as a string >> of characters from an input file: >> >> ranEff <- "pdCompSymm(~1+Age)" >> >> I need to convert 'ranEff' to a formula class. However, as shown below: >> >>> as.formula(ranEff) >> ~1 + Age >> >> the "pdCompSymm" is lost in the conversion. Any solutions? > > as.formula(paste("~",ranEff)) > ~pdCompSymm(~1 + Age) > -- > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.