Gee, so much excitement over such a little thing. So how exactly would you prefer lm() to tell you what levels of your factors are being taken as the reference levels?
Post-processing, if necessary, would seem to be pretty trivial. If you want to re-run lm() on modified sets of predictors, what's wrong with editing the lm(...) command or using update()? -Peter Ehlers Idgarad wrote:
How for the love of god can I prevent the lm() function from padding on to my factor variables? I start out with 2 tables: Table1 123123 124351 ... 626773 Table2 Count,IS_DEAD,IS_BURNING 1231,T,F 4521,F,T ... 3321,T,T Everything looks fine when I import the data. then we get a oh_crap <- lm(table1 ~ Count + IS_DEAD + IS_BURNING, table2) Magically when I look at my oh_crap coefficents they get turned into Count, IS_DEADTRUE, IS_BURNINGTRUE I get it that it finds them to be factors by how in the name of all that is holy do I prevent them from doing that crap since later after a stepwise removal I go into one of the models grab what coefficents were kept (IS_BURNINGTTRUE now) and read future regressors from the original table which read IS_BURNING rather then IS_BURNINGTRUE. Since there is a mix of numeric and dummy regressors I cannot selectively append TRUE to variables names as I don't have control of what regressors get imported (one month there might be 50 and another month 2). How can I stop lm() from padding onto a coefficent's name? I have no objection to post processing by finding and assasinating any name with the word TRUE appended to the end of a name but in that case then how do I change the coeff name? Maddening... who thought it would be a good idea to append things without asking? A simple lm(appendFactor=FALSE) would have been nice... took me 3 hours to find out what was going wrong on this.... Grabbing coffee, a carton of cigs, and heading outside to smash my head with a brick to make the hurting stop.... [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
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