Plot "regression line" from multiple regression in R

To plot the individual terms in a linear or generalised linear model (ie, fit with lm or glm), use termplot. No need for binning or other manipulation.

# plot everything on one page
par(mfrow=c(2,3))
termplot(lmMultiple)

# plot individual term
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
termplot(lmMultiple, terms="preTestScore")

You need to create a vector of x-values in the domain of your plot and predict their corresponding y-values from your model. To do this, you need to inject this vector into a dataframe comprised of variables that match those in your model. You stated that you are OK with keeping the other variables fixed at their mean values, so I have used that approach in my solution. Whether or not the x-values you are predicting are actually legal given the other values in your plot should probably be something you consider when setting this up.

Without sample data I can't be sure this will work exactly for you, so I apologize if there are any bugs below, but this should at least illustrate the approach.

# Setup
xmin = 0; xmax=10 # domain of your plot
D = my.data
plot( D$probCategorySame, D$posttestScore, xlim=c(xmin,xmax) )
lmMultiple <- lm( posttestScore ~ pretestScore + probCategorySame + probDataRelated + practiceAccuracy + practiceNumTrials, data=D )

# create a dummy dataframe where all variables = their mean value for each record
# except the variable we want to plot, which will vary incrementally over the 
# domain of the plot. We need this object to get the predicted values we
# want to plot.
N=1e4
means = colMeans(D)
dummyDF = t(as.data.frame(means))
for(i in 2:N){dummyDF=rbind(dummyDF,means)} # There's probably a more elegant way to do this.
xv=seq(xmin,xmax, length.out=N)
dummyDF$probCSBinned = xv 
# if this gives you a warning about "Coercing LHS to list," use bracket syntax:
#dummyDF[,k] = xv # where k is the column index of the variable `posttestScore`

# Getting and plotting predictions over our dummy data.
yv=predict(lmMultiple, newdata=subset(dummyDF, select=c(-posttestScore)))
lines(xv, yv)

Look at the Predict.Plot function in the TeachingDemos package for one option to plot one predictor vs. the response at a given value of the other predictors.

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