warning when calculating predicted values

Question

working with a data frame

x
    Date      Val
    1/1/2012   7
    2/1/2012   9
    3/1/2012   20
    4/1/2012   24
    5/1/2012   50
a <- seq(as.Date(tai         


        

Answer 1

Your variable names, as stored in the x.lm model, refer to the x dataframe. There are no variables of the same names in a, so it will use those 29 from x again, which is probably not what you wanted, thus the warning. You can do the following to always use an unqualified variable named Date in the model:

a <- seq(as.Date(tail(x, 1)$Date), by="month", length=5)
a <- data.frame(Date = a)
x.lm <- lm(Val ~ Date, data=x)
x.pre<-predict(x.lm, newdata=a)