generateInitial: Initial Chronologies
In AustralianAntarcticDataCentre/datemoss: Chronologies and Growth Rates of Moss

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Initial Chronology for initializing MCMC sampler

1	generateInitial(lengths, tmin, tmax, chains = 1L, max.growth = NULL)

`lengths`	a vector of segment lengths (in timewise order)
`tmin`	the minimum possible date
`tmax`	the final date
`chains`	the number of chains to generate initializations for
`max.growth`	the maximum possible growth rate

The function generateInitial generates random chronologies that can be used to initialize the MCMC sampler metropolisDate.

The user must provide the vector lengths containing the continuous sequence of segment lengths in timewise order, the earliest possible date tmin and the final date tmax (usually the acquisition date). If in addition the user specifies a maximal growth rate then cut dates will be generated such that the growth rate never exceeds this upper limit, and if this is not possible the function will raise an error.

a list of vectors of segment cut dates

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