[R] How do I obtain the design matrix of an lm()?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

?model.matrix

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Ajay Shah wrote:

> I am using the clever formula notation of R to first do an OLS. E.g. I
> say
>
>  m <- lm(y ~ x + f)
>
> where f is a factor, and R automatically constructs the dummy
> variables. Very nice.
>
> I need to then go on to do some other ML estimation using the same
> design matrix that's used for the OLS. I could, of course, do this
> manually. But it seems that lm() has done all this hard work. I wonder
> if there's a way to ask him nicely so as to get it. :-)
>
>

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