read.openbugs: Read CODA output files produced by OpenBUGS

read.openbugsR Documentation

Read CODA output files produced by OpenBUGS

Description

read.openbugs reads Markov Chain Monte Carlo output in the CODA format produced by OpenBUGS.

This is a convenience wrapper around the function read.coda which allows you to read all the data output by OpenBUGS by specifying only the file stem.

Usage

read.openbugs(stem="", start, end, thin, quiet=FALSE)

Arguments

stem

Character string giving the stem for the output files. OpenBUGS produces files with names "<stem>CODAindex.txt", "<stem>CODAchain1.txt", "<stem>CODAchain2.txt", ...

start

First iteration of chain

end

Last iteration of chain

thin

Thinning interval for chain

quiet

Logical flag. If true, a progress summary will be printed

Value

An object of class mcmc.list containing output from all chains.

Author(s)

Martyn Plummer

References

Spiegelhalter DJ, Thomas A, Best NG and Lunn D (2004). WinBUGS User Manual, Version 2.0, June 2004, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.

See Also

read.coda.


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