Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:52:40 -0800 From: Clayton Springer <csprin at brandybuck.ca.sandia.gov> To: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Peter,
I believe that the iris3 is rather special data format. But I am unable to get a text file to become something like iris3. I would like to be able to formulate my data into a useable format. What is the proper procedure to create iris3 from external sources.
library(MASS) data(iris3) (You need to install the VR bundle from CRAN first)
I have already done this. (I have successfully worked through the example.) What I would like to do is use myown data and work through a similar exercise.
Then look at the other examples (in MASS3), such as data(fgl) fgl.lda <- lda(type ~ ., fgl) fgl is a data frame, type is a factor. dcrabs.lda <- lda(crabs$sex ~ FL + RW + CL + CW, lcrabs) lcrabs is a data frame, crabs$sex is a factor. The general form is factor ~ var1 + var2 + ... + varn where vari had better be numerical variates. There are first looked for in the data frame supplied as the data argument, if any.
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