Classes and methods

In inlabru: Bayesian Latent Gaussian Modelling using INLA and Extensions

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(inlabru))
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(fmesher))
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(tibble))

convert_fun_link <- function(x, webref) {
  pkg_name <- sub(
    pattern = "^(([^:]*)::)?([^(]+)(\\(.*\\))(<-)?$",
    replacement = "\\2",
    x = x
  )
  if (identical(pkg_name, "")) {
    pkg_name <- "inlabru"
  }
  nm <- sub(
    pattern = "^(([^:]*)::)?([^(]+)(\\(.*\\))(<-)?$",
    replacement = "\\3",
    x = x
  )
  args <- sub(
    pattern = "^(([^:]*)::)?([^(]+)(\\(.*\\))(<-)?$",
    replacement = "\\4\\5",
    x = x
  )
  help_name <- tryCatch(
    {
      basename(utils::help((nm), package = (pkg_name)))
    },
    error = function(e) {
      nm
    }
  )
  paste0(
    '<a href="', webref[[pkg_name]], help_name, '.html">Y</a>',
  )
}

convert_fun_links <- function(df) {
  webref <- list(
    inlabru = "https://inlabru-org.github.io/inlabru/reference/",
    fmesher = "https://inlabru-org.github.io/fmesher/reference/"
  )
  df$Fun <- vapply(
    df[["Fun"]],
    function(x) convert_fun_link(x, webref),
    ""
  )
  df
}

convert_NAs <- function(df) {
  for (k in colnames(df)) {
    df[[k]] <- vapply(
      df[[k]],
      function(x) if (is.na(x)) "" else paste0("`", x, "`"),
      ""
    )
  }
  df
}

special_classes <- c(
  "bru",
  "bru_comp",
  "bru_comp_list",
  "bru_obs",
  "bru_obs_list",
  "bru_predictor",
  "bru_model",
  "bru_info",
  "bru_mapper",
  "bm_list"
)

bm_classes <- names(rlang::pkg_env("inlabru"))
bm_classes <- bm_classes[grepl("^bm_", bm_classes)]
all_classes <- unique(c(special_classes, bm_classes))
# TODO: further filtering

names(all_classes) <- all_classes
methods_list <- c(
  #  "predict",
  #  "generate",
  "gg"
)
names(methods_list) <- methods_list

class_methods <- lapply(all_classes, function(x) {
  y <- unclass(methods(class = x))
  if (NROW(y) == 0) {
    NULL
  } else {
    y <- cbind(class = x, attr(y, "info"))
    rownames(y) <- NULL
    y
  }
})
method_classes <- lapply(methods_list, function(x) {
  y <- unclass(methods(generic.function = x))
  if (NROW(y) == 0) {
    NULL
  } else {
    y <- cbind(class = gsub(paste0("^", x, "\\."), "", y), attr(y, "info"))
    rownames(y) <- NULL
    y
  }
})

info <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  dplyr::bind_rows(class_methods),
  dplyr::bind_rows(method_classes)
) |> # dplyr::filter(from == "inlabru") |>
  dplyr::group_by(generic, class) |>
  dplyr::summarise(generic = generic[1], class = class[1], .groups = "drop") |>
  dplyr::select(Generic = generic, Class = class) |>
  dplyr::mutate(Support = "Y") |>
  dplyr::arrange(Class, Generic)

info_sep <- list(
  gg = info |>
    dplyr::filter(Generic == "gg"),
  bm = info |>
    dplyr::filter(Class %in% bm_classes),
  special = info |>
    dplyr::filter(Class %in% special_classes)
)

info_sep_wide <- lapply(
  info_sep,
  function(x) {
    x |>
      tidyr::pivot_wider(names_from = Class, values_from = Support) |>
      convert_NAs() |>
      dplyr::arrange(Generic)
  }
)

```{css,echo=FALSE} th.rotate { / Something you can count on / height: 140px; white-space: nowrap; }

th.rotate > div { transform: / Magic Numbers / translate(-5px, 51px) / 60 is really 360 - 60 / rotate(300deg); width: 30px; }

th.rotate > div > span { border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 5px 10px; }

### General classes
```r
x <- knitr::kable(
  info_sep_wide$special,
  caption = "General classes and methods in `inlabru`",
  #  col.names = c("Method", "Class"),
  row.names = FALSE,
  format = "html"
)

gsub('<th style="text-align:(left|center|right);"> ([^(>| )]+) </th>',
  '<th class="rotate"><div><span>\\2</span></div></th>',
  x = x
) |>
  cat(sep = "\n")

Bru mapper classes

x <- knitr::kable(
  info_sep_wide$bm,
  caption = "`bru_mapper` classes and methods in `inlabru`",
  #  col.names = c("Method", "Class"),
  row.names = FALSE,
  format = "html"
)

gsub('<th style="text-align:(left|center|right);"> ([^(>| )]+) </th>',
  '<th class="rotate"><div><span>\\2</span></div></th>',
  x = x
) |>
  cat(sep = "\n")

inlabru documentation built on July 28, 2026, 9:07 a.m.