nimble: nimbleType-class – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

nimbleType-class

create a nimbleType object

Description

Create a nimbleType object, with information on the name, type, and dimension of an object to be placed in a nimbleList.

Arguments

`name`	The name of the object, given as a character string.
`type`	The type of the object, given as a character string.
`dim`	The dimension of the object, given as an integer. This can be left blank if the object is a nimbleList.

Details

This function creates nimbleType objects, which can be used to define the elements of a nimbleList.

The type argument can be chosen from among character, double, integer, and logical, or can be the name of a previously created nimbleList definition.

See the NIMBLE User Manual for additional examples.

Author(s)

NIMBLE development team

Examples

nimbleTypeList <- list()
nimbleTypeList[[1]] <- nimbleType(name = 'x', type = 'integer', dim = 0)
nimbleTypeList[[2]] <- nimbleType(name = 'Y', type = 'double', dim = 2)

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