R help - Sep 2009 - How to refer the element in a named list?

Hi,

I thought that 'coefficients' is a named list, but I can not refer to
its element by something like r$coefficients$y. I used str() to check
r. It says the following. Can somebody let me know what it means?
  ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "(Intercept)"
"y"

$ Rscript lm.R
> x=1:10
> y=1:10
> r=lm(x~y)
> class(r)
[1] "lm"
> mode(r)
[1] "list"
> r
Call:
lm(formula = x ~ y)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)            y
  1.123e-15    1.000e+00
> r$coefficients[1]
 (Intercept)
1.123467e-15
> r$coefficients[[1]]
[1] 1.123467e-15
> r$coefficients[2]
y
1
> r$coefficients[[2]]
[1] 1
>
> str(r)
List of 12
 $ coefficients : Named num [1:2] 1.12e-15 1.00
  ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "(Intercept)"
"y"

Regards,
Peng

On 06/09/2009 1:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought that 'coefficients' is a named list, but I can not refer
to
> its element by something like r$coefficients$y. I used str() to check
> r. It says the following. Can somebody let me know what it means?
The line that matters is the one

  $ coefficients : Named num [1:2] 1.12e-15 1.00

It says that coefficients is a numeric ("num") vector, not a list.  So
r$coefficients["y"] will extract the y coefficient.

Duncan Murdoch

>   ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "(Intercept)"
"y"
> 
> $ Rscript lm.R
>> x=1:10
>> y=1:10
>> r=lm(x~y)
>> class(r)
> [1] "lm"
>> mode(r)
> [1] "list"
>> r
> 
> Call:
> lm(formula = x ~ y)
> 
> Coefficients:
> (Intercept)            y
>   1.123e-15    1.000e+00
> 
>> r$coefficients[1]
>  (Intercept)
> 1.123467e-15
>> r$coefficients[[1]]
> [1] 1.123467e-15
>> r$coefficients[2]
> y
> 1
>> r$coefficients[[2]]
> [1] 1
> 
> 
>> str(r)
> List of 12
>  $ coefficients : Named num [1:2] 1.12e-15 1.00
>   ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "(Intercept)"
"y"
> 
> Regards,
> Peng
> 
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