apollo_readBeta {apollo}R Documentation

Reads parameters from file

Description

Reads in parameters from a previously estimated model and copies the values to the given apollo_beta vector, only for those parameters whose name matches.

Usage

apollo_readBeta(
  apollo_beta,
  apollo_fixed,
  inputModelName,
  overwriteFixed = FALSE
)

Arguments

apollo_beta

Named numeric vector. Names and values for parameters.

apollo_fixed

Character vector. Names (as defined in apollo_beta) of parameters whose value should not change during estimation.

inputModelName

Character. modelName for model from which results are used as starting values.

overwriteFixed

Boolean. TRUE if starting values for fixed parameters should also be updated from input file.

Details

This function will update the values of the parameters in its argument apollo_beta with the matching values in the file (inputModelName)_estimates.csv. If there is no match for a given parameter in apollo_beta, its value will not be updated.

Value

Named numeric vector. Names and updated starting values for parameters.


[Package apollo version 0.3.3 Index]