as.mcmc.brmsfit {brms} R Documentation

## Extract posterior samples for use with the coda package

### Description

Extract posterior samples for use with the coda package

### Usage

## S3 method for class 'brmsfit'
as.mcmc(
x,
pars = NA,
fixed = FALSE,
combine_chains = FALSE,
inc_warmup = FALSE,
...
)


### Arguments

 x An R object typically of class brmsfit pars Names of parameters for which posterior samples should be returned, as given by a character vector or regular expressions. By default, all posterior samples of all parameters are extracted. fixed Indicates whether parameter names should be matched exactly (TRUE) or treated as regular expressions (FALSE). Default is FALSE. combine_chains Indicates whether chains should be combined. inc_warmup Indicates if the warmup samples should be included. Default is FALSE. Warmup samples are used to tune the parameters of the sampling algorithm and should not be analyzed. ... currently unused

### Value

If combine_chains = TRUE an mcmc object is returned. If combine_chains = FALSE an mcmc.list object is returned.

[Package brms version 2.17.0 Index]