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extractControlElement

Extract named elements from MCMC sampler control list

Description

Extract named elements from MCMC sampler control list

Usage

extractControlElement(controlList, elementName, defaultValue, error)

Arguments

controlList

control list object, which is passed as an argument to all MCMC sampler setup functions.
elementName

character string, giving the name of the element to be extracted from the control list.
defaultValue

default value of the control list element, giving the value to be used when the elementName does not exactly match the name of an element in the controlList.
error

character string, giving the error message to be printed if no defaultValue is provided and elementName does not match the name of an element in the controlList.

Value

The element of controlList whose name matches elementName. If no controlList name matches elementName, then defaultValue is returned.

Author(s)

Daniel Turek

nimble

MCMC, Particle Filtering, and Programmable Hierarchical Modeling

v0.11.0
BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE | GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Perry de Valpine [aut], Christopher Paciorek [aut, cre], Daniel Turek [aut], Nick Michaud [aut], Cliff Anderson-Bergman [aut], Fritz Obermeyer [aut], Claudia Wehrhahn Cortes [aut] (Bayesian nonparametrics system), Abel Rodrìguez [aut] (Bayesian nonparametrics system), Duncan Temple Lang [aut] (packaging configuration), Sally Paganin [aut] (reversible jump MCMC), Jagadish Babu [ctb] (code for the compilation system for an early version of NIMBLE), Lauren Ponisio [ctb] (contributions to the cross-validation code), Peter Sujan [ctb] (multivariate t distribution code)
Initial release
2021-04-16

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