Hi all, I've been revising some lecture notes and I have something that used to work with dummy.coef and now doesn't. A search of R help doesn't reveal any recent discussion on this function, so I'd appreciate your thoughts. The (compact/relevant) code is below, and complains at the line rep.int(x1[[i]][1L], nl), levels = xl[[i]]) that the 'times' value is invalid. This seems to relate to the the polynomial terms, but I'm not sure how to take it further than that. battery.df = data.frame( voltage = c(130,155,74,180,34,40,80,75,20,70,82, 58,150,188,159,126,136,122,106,115,25,70,58,45, 138,110,168,160,174,130,150,139,96,104,82,60), material = factor(rep(1:3,rep(12,3))), temp = rep(rep(c(50,65,80),rep(4,3)),3)) battery.df = data.frame(voltage, material, temp) battery.fit=lm(voltage~material*(temp+I(temp^2)),data = battery.df) dummy.coef(battery.fit) Error in rep.int(xl[[i]][1L], nl) : invalid 'times' value Thanks, James -- James M. Curran, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director Bioinformatics Institute Department of Statistics Faculty of Science Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand