R - Formula ( ~ tilde)

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R - Formula ( ~ tilde)

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A formula in S is indicated by the ~ character.

?formula

Design Matrix

A formula is commonly used to generate design matrices for modeling function (e.g. lm). 

mod1 <- lm(Sepal.Width ~ Petal.Width + log(Petal.Length) + Species, 
           data = iris, subset = Sepal.Length > 4.6)

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