How to Loop/Repeat a Linear Regression in R

The question seems to be about how to call regression functions with formulas which are modified inside a loop.

Here is how you can do it in (using diamonds dataset):

attach(ggplot2::diamonds)
strCols = names(ggplot2::diamonds)

formula <- list(); model <- list()
for (i in 1:1) {
  formula[[i]] = paste0(strCols[7], " ~ ", strCols[7+i])
  model[[i]] = glm(formula[[i]]) 

  #then you can plot or do anything else with the result ...
  png(filename = sprintf("diamonds_price=glm(%s).png", strCols[7+i]))
  par(mfrow = c(2, 2))      
  plot(model[[i]])
  dev.off()
  }

Sensible or not, to make the loop at least somehow work you need:

y<- c(1,5,6,2,5,10) # response 
x1<- c(2,12,8,1,16,17) # predictor 
x2<- c(2,14,5,1,17,17) 
predictorlist<- list("x1","x2") 
for (i in predictorlist){ 
  model <- lm(paste("y ~", i[[1]]), data=df) 
  print(summary(model)) 
} 

The paste function will solve the problem.

You want to run 22,000 linear regressions and extract the coefficients? That's simple to do from a coding standpoint.

set.seed(1)

# number of columns in the Lung and Blood data.frames. 22,000 for you?
n <- 5 

# dummy data
obs <- 50 # observations
Lung <- data.frame(matrix(rnorm(obs*n), ncol=n))
Blood <- data.frame(matrix(rnorm(obs*n), ncol=n))
Age <- sample(20:80, obs)
Gender  <- factor(rbinom(obs, 1, .5))

# run n regressions
my_lms <- lapply(1:n, function(x) lm(Lung[,x] ~ Blood[,x] + Age + Gender))

# extract just coefficients
sapply(my_lms, coef)

# if you need more info, get full summary call. now you can get whatever, like:
summaries <- lapply(my_lms, summary)
# ...coefficents with p values:
lapply(summaries, function(x) x$coefficients[, c(1,4)])
# ...or r-squared values
sapply(summaries, function(x) c(r_sq = x$r.squared, 
                                adj_r_sq = x$adj.r.squared))

The models are stored in a list, where model 3 (with DV Lung[, 3] and IVs Blood[,3] + Age + Gender) is in my_lms[[3]] and so on. You can use apply functions on the list to perform summaries, from which you can extract the numbers you want.