[R] Calling "confint.glm" from within another function

Marc Schwartz
Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:13:36 -0000

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:01 -0600, Inman, Brant A. M.D.
wrote:
> On July 12, 2004 Spencer Graves wrote an email describing essentially
> the same issue that I would like help on: calling the confint function
> from within another homemade function.  Because he provided many good
> examples of the problem, I will not reproduce them here but will instead
> refer readers to the original posting:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch/msg23826.html
>
> It is not clear from the replies to his posting how he managed to solve
> the problem, so I am reposting a similar note again in hopes of
> guidance.  In particular, I would like to know if and how I need to
> modify the confint function call so that I can access it from within
> another function that I have written.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brant Inman

I'll see your thread and raise you one:-)

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-December/043952.html

Bottom line, it has been fixed in a recent update to the VR bundle.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz