Lasso r code - what is wrong with it?
I am attempting to carry out lasso regression using the lars package but can not seem to get the lars bit to work. I have inputted code:
diabetes<-read.table("diabetes.txt", header=TRUE)
diabetes
library(lars)
diabetes.lasso = lars(diabetes$x, diabetes$y, type = "lasso")
However, I get an error message of : Error in rep(1, n) : invalid 'times' argument.
I have tried entering it like this:
diabetes<-read.table("diabetes.txt", header=TRUE)
library(lars)
data(diabetes)
diabetes.lasso = lars(age+sex+bmi+map+td+ldl+hdl+tch+ltg+glu, y, type = "lasso")
But then I get the error message: 'Error in lars(age+sex + bmi + map + td + ldl + hdl + tch + ltg + glu, y, type = "lasso") : object 'age' not found'
Where am I going wrong?
EDIT: Data - as below but with another 5 columns.
ldl hdl tch ltg glu
1 -0.034820763 -0.043400846 -0.002592262 0.019908421 -0.017646125
2 -0.019163340 0.074411564 -0.039493383 -0.068329744 -0.092204050
3 -0.034194466 -0.032355932 -0.002592262 0.002863771 -0.025930339
4 0.024990593 -0.036037570 0.034308859 0.022692023 -0.009361911
5 0.015596140 0.008142084 -0.002592262 -0.031991445 -0.046640874
Answer
lars::lars does not appear to have a formula interface, which means you cannot use the formula specification for the column names (and furthermore it does not accept a "data=" argument). For more information on this and other "data mining" topics, you might want to get a copy of the classic text: "Elements of Statistical Learning". Try this:
# this obviously assumes require(lars) and data(diabetes) have been executed.
> diabetes.lasso = with( diabetes, lars(x, y, type = "lasso"))
> summary(diabetes.lasso)
LARS/LASSO
Call: lars(x = x, y = y, type = "lasso")
Df Rss Cp
0 1 2621009 453.7263
1 2 2510465 418.0322
2 3 1700369 143.8012
3 4 1527165 86.7411
4 5 1365734 33.6957
5 6 1324118 21.5052
6 7 1308932 18.3270
7 8 1275355 8.8775
8 9 1270233 9.1311
9 10 1269390 10.8435
10 11 1264977 11.3390
11 10 1264765 9.2668
12 11 1263983 11.0000