You called your variables V1 and V2. You need to supply new values of V1
and V2, not x and y.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, akintayo holder wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a linear model ("mod1 <- lm(V3~V1+V2) and I would like to
get the
> model's prediction at values of V1 and V2 not included in the original
> sample.
>
> samp <- read.table("data.dat",nrows=100)
> attach(samp)
> out.poly <- lm(V3 ~ V1 + V2)
>
> If I try to use out.poly to predict values for the function I run into
> problems. It seems that it isn't possible to use a new data frame for
the
> predict() or fitted() functions.
>
> predict(out.poly, data.frame(x=V1, y=V2)) uses the original data
> predict(out.poly, data.frame(x=V1, y=V2), newdata=gene.dat)
> - uses the original data also, complaining of the decrease in rows.
>
> If any one could point me in the correct direction, it would be
appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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