I'm reading this vignette which states:
Most R users will be familiar with the base expansion operators for creating model interaction terms, e.g. x1*x2, x1:x2, and x1/x2
I know that x1:x2
is x1 multiplied by x2.
While x1*x2=x1+x2+x1:x2
.
But I don't know what x1/x2
is, and I can't find useful information online.
What does the forward slash do in interaction term in R?
The details section in the documentation for stats::formula
provides a description for each operator, including /
:
/
operator provides a shorthand, so that a / b
is equivalent to a + b %in% a
.