Hi R,
I have a matrix x with repeating row names. > dim(x) [1] 862 19 zz<-matrix(0,4,4) rownames(zz)=c("a","a","b","b") data.frame(zz) (?) I need to use x in a linear regression lm(as.formula(paste("final_dat[,5]~",paste(colnames(x),collapse="+"))),x ) this gives me a error Error in model.frame.default(formula = as.formula(paste("final_dat[,5]~", : 'data' must be a data.frame, not a matrix or an array > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] xlsReadWrite_1.3.2 Thanks in advance Ravi This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ 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.