dcoptions function

Setting Options

Setting options. UTF-8

dcoptions(...)

Arguments

• ...: Arguments in tag = value form, or a list of tagged values. The tags must come from the parameters described below.

Details

dcoptions is a convenient way of handling options related to the package.

Returns

When parameters are set by dcoptions, their former values are returned in an invisible named list. Such a list can be passed as an argument to dcoptions to restore the parameter values. Tags are the following:

• autoburnin: logical, to use in gelman.diag

  (default is TRUE).

• diag: critical value to use for data cloning convergence diagnostics, default is 0.05.

• LB: logical, should load balancing be used, default is FALSE.

• overwrite: logical, should existing model file be overwritten, default is TRUE.

• rhat: critical value for testing chain convergence, default is 1.1.

• RNG: parallel RNG type, either "none" (default), or "RNGstream", see clusterSetRNGStream.

• verbose: integer, should output be verbose (>0) or not (0), default is 1.

Author(s)

Peter Solymos, solymos@ualberta.ca

Examples

## set LB option, but store old value
ov <- dcoptions("LB"=TRUE)
## this is old value
ov
## this is new value
getOption("dcoptions")
## reset to old value
dcoptions(ov)
## check reset
getOption("dcoptions")