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2004 Mar 24
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First Variable in lm
Hi all, I just cannot think of how to do it: I want to take the first variable (column) of a data frame and regress it against all other variables. bla <- function (dat) { reg <- lm(whateverthefirstofthevariablenamesis ~., data=dat) return(reg) } What kind of function do I have to take instead of the whateverthefirstofthevariablenamesis, eval(), substitute(), get(), ... to correctly compute this regression? With lm(get(names(dat)[1] ~., data=dat) there are no errors, but the first variable also shows...