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So, here's the R issue of the day.

I've got a lot of really short, 7 point vectors... about 350 of them. I want to use these vectors to run regression (starting with logistic and probably some non linear).  So for example (how do you do that matrix thing in blog?) I may have the matrix:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .....
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .....
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ....
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ....
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Right, so the vectors I would speak of all are the items on column 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on (past 15 to 350).  So in a sense it's not even a "matrix" but really an array of data that happens to be understood  by R as a matrix (it actually will be in R as a table, but R still uses matrix words like vector, transpose, etc.)

So my question is that I need to regress all of these columns against a string of numbers that are a variable themselves.  I set this string normally as

String<-c(2,2,2,2,2,2,2)

But of course it's not really all 2's.

So assuming I just had some normal data also written as a string like this: data<-c(2,2,2,2,2,2,2),  I could say

Summary(lm(data~string)

Which gives me the summary statistics of a linear model of the data onto a string.

So taking a step back.  I need to use a vector instead of a data string.  When I tell R to find the column with an index of [0] it can output to me this

v$0 [1,1,1,1,1,1,1]

but it will cannot tall that v$0 is a string and not a vector, so I get an error message that the objects are not the some type.

I don't really know what to look for, but I tried finding an "as.string" command as well as the "paste" command (which is sort of the concatenate command for R).  Also I tried to transpose the vector, thinking maybe it would be happier to read it facing the other way.

At this point, I feel sort of like S.  BUT HOW DO YOU PICK UP A PICTURE WITH YOUR MOUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND?

I default to HE WHO KNOWS MUCH OF PROGRAMMING--- any suggestions for things I could google search that might describe what I am trying to do?  I think maybe I am just looking for the wrong thing, and there's a simple term out there in programming that means what I am trying to do.