I am new to R
and I am trying to do linear prediction. Here is some simple data:
test.frame<-data.frame(year=8:11, value= c(12050,15292,23907,33991))
Say if I want to predict the value for year=12
. This is what I am doing (experimenting with different commands):
lma=lm(test.frame$value~test.frame$year) # let's get a linear fit
summary(lma) # let's see some parameters
attributes(lma) # let's see what parameters we can call
lma$coefficients # I get the intercept and gradient
predict(lm(test.frame$value~test.frame$year))
newyear <- 12 # new value for year
predict.lm(lma, newyear) # predicted value for the new year
Some queries:
if I issue the command
lma$coefficients
for instance, a vector of two values is returned to me. How to pick only the intercept value?I get lots of output with
predict.lm(lma, newyear)
but cannot understand where the predicted value is. Can someone please clarify?
Thanks a lot...