R: Trace of a variable

samplesHistory {BRugs}

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Trace of a variable

Description

This function returns and plots a complete trace for a variable.

Usage

samplesHistory(node, beg = samplesGetBeg(), end = samplesGetEnd(), 
    firstChain = samplesGetFirstChain(), 
    lastChain = samplesGetLastChain(), thin = samplesGetThin(),
    plot = TRUE, mfrow = c(3, 1), ask = NULL, ann = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

`node`	Character vector of length 1, name of a variable in the model.
`beg`, `end`	Arguments to select a slice of monitored values corresponding to iterations `beg:end`.
`firstChain`, `lastChain`	Arguments to select a sub group of chains to plot the trace for.
`thin`	to only use every `thin`-th value of the stored sample for statistics.
`plot`	Logical, whether to plot the trace or only return the values. If `TRUE`, values are returned invisibly.
`mfrow`, `ask`, `ann`	Graphical parameters, see `par` for details. `ask` defaults to `TRUE` unless it is plotting into an already opened non-interactive device. The `ann` parameter is not available in S-PLUS, and will be ignored if it is set.
`...`	Further graphical parameters as in `par` may also be passed as arguments to `plotHistory`.

Details

If the variable of interest is an array, slices of the array can be selected using the notation variable[lower0:upper0, lower1:upper1, ...]. A star ‘*’ can be entered as shorthand for all the stored samples.

If the arguments are left at their defaults the whole sample for all chains will be used for calculation.

Value