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Strange behaviour of lm

3 messages · Guido Masarotto, Peter Dalgaard

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Guido Masarotto
# 
R-0.62.4 running under linux
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Error: length of namelist must equal dims
Call:
lm(formula = x ~ x)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)
          2
Call:
lm(formula = y ~ x)
	  
Coefficients:
(Intercept)            x
          0            1
	  
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guido
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Peter Dalgaard
# 
Guido Masarotto <guido@sirio.stat.unipd.it> writes:
That one is a bug...
...but the rest is Splus compatible. The dependent is removed from the
right hand side of model formulas. I seem to remember that there's a
reason for that.
Peter Dalgaard
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Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
.. which is now fixed for 0.63:
Call:
lm(formula = x ~ x)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)  
    -0.5668