# How to get a GLM where formula is programmatically generated

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** dataframes, glm\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-glm-where-formula-is-programmatically-generated/43519 "2020-07-22T21:41:24Z")\
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@nilshg just added support for creating a `Term` from a string (available in [v0.6.14, which should automerge soon](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/pull/20638)), so you can now do something like

```julia
terms = term.(names(data))
f = terms[1] ~ sum(terms[2:end]) # assuming first column is "y"
ols2 = lm(f, data)

```

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