"MUGGEO VITO" <vito.muggeo at giustizia.it> writes:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to fit model where the terms both are in the data.frame,
mydata
> say, and are vectors *not in the data.frame*.
> >obj<-glm(y~x, data=mydata) #works
> >Z<-pmax(mydata$x-20,0)
> >(length(Z)==length(obj$y))
> >[1] TRUE
> >update(obj,.~.+Z) #works
>
> However for some subset it doesn't works:
> >obj<-glm(y~x, data=mydata, subset=f==1) #works
> >Z<-pmax(mydata$x[mydata$f==1]-20,0)
> >(length(Z)==length(obj$y))
> >[1] TRUE
> >update(obj,.~.+Z) #DOESN'T WORK!!!
> Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras,
> extranames, :
> variable lengths differ
>
> Of course also the following doesn't work
> >glm(y~x +Z, mydata, subset=f==1) #doesn't work
>
> but the following works
> >glm(y[mydata$f==1]~x[mydata$f==1] +Z, mydata)
>
> How can I solve this problem?
The problem is that subsetting assumes that the variables have the
same length *before* subsetting, but Z is already subsetted. I would
expect that it worked if you just let
Z<-pmax(mydata$x-20,0)
obj<-glm(y~x, data=mydata, subset=f==1)
update(obj,.~.+Z)
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