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nimDim

return sizes of an object whether it is a vector, matrix or array

Description

R's regular dim function returns NULL for a vector. It is useful to have this function that treats a vector similarly to a matrix or array. Works in R and NIMBLE. In NIMBLE dim is identical to nimDim, not to R's dim

Usage

nimDim(obj)

Arguments

obj

objects for which the sizes are requested

Value

a vector of sizes in each dimension

Author(s)

NIMBLE development team

Examples

x <- rnorm(4)
dim(x)
nimDim(x)
y <- matrix(x, nrow = 2)
dim(y)
nimDim(y)

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