Hi Caio, I just replied to a fellow who needed to run a series of regressions changing the dependent variables for the same period. I believe your solution might be similar to that one, just making the window dynamic instead. I used a lapply to store regressions and sapplys to extract stats from the lm()s. Please check the attachment and hope it?s useful. Filipe Botelho -----Mensagem original----- De: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Em nome de Caio Ramos Casimiro Enviada em: ter?a-feira, 31 de maio de 2011 12:23 Para: r-help at r-project.org Assunto: [R] Using lm() combined with sapply Dear list, I spent a lot of time looking for the solution for this problem, but with no success. It's the first time I came to the list to ask for help, so I'm sorry if I break some protocol. Well, I'm trying to make a serie of regressions in different periods, actually, in growing periods. In other words, I start by make a regression in a period from 1 to t, then I make another regression from 1 to t+1, and so on until t+1 < N. A loop version for this is: a <- rep(1,100)+rnorm(100) b <- rep(2,100)+rnorm(100) c <- rep(1.5,100)+rnorm(100) n.start <- 50 coefs <- array(NA,c(51,4)) for (i in (n.start:100)) coefs[i-n.start+1,] <- coef(lm(a ~ b + c, subset=1:i)) I want to avoid loops, so I was trying to make something like: regride <- function(formula,dat,sub,w) { window <- c(1:sub) w[1:sub-1] <- w[1:sub-1]*beta^sub coefs(lm(formula=formula,data=dat,subset=window,weights=w)) } coefs <- sapply(n_start:dim(ind)[1],regride,formula,dat,x) But it's not working. Best regards, Caio Casimiro -- Caio Ramos Casimiro Software Developer +55 11 9773 2809 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. "This message and its attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee, please, advise the sender immediately by replying to the e-mail and delete this message." "Este mensaje y sus anexos pueden contener informaci?n confidencial o privilegiada. Si ha recibido este e-mail por error por favor b?rrelo y env?e un mensaje al remitente." "Esta mensagem e seus anexos podem conter informa??o confidencial ou privilegiada. Caso n?o seja o destinat?rio, solicitamos a imediata notifica??o ao remetente e exclus?o da mensagem." -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Filipe Leme Botelho" <filipe.botelho at vpar.com.br> Subject: RES: [R] Linear regression - several response variables vs few indvariables Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:03:06 -0300 Size: 4840 URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20110531/510f82f3/attachment.mht>