read.openbugs {coda}

Read CODA output files produced by OpenBUGS

Description

read.openbugs reads Markov Chain Monte Carlo output in the CODA format produced by OpenBUGS.

This is a convenience wrapper around the function read.coda which allows you to read all the data output by OpenBUGS by specifying only the file stem.

Usage

read.openbugs(stem="", start, end, thin, quiet=FALSE)

Arguments

stem

Character string giving the stem for the output files. OpenBUGS produces files with names "<stem>CODAindex.txt", "<stem>CODAchain1.txt", "<stem>CODAchain2.txt", ...

start

First iteration of chain

end

Last iteration of chain

thin

Thinning interval for chain

quiet

Logical flag. If true, a progress summary will be printed

Value

An object of class mcmc.list containing output from all chains.

Author(s)

Martyn Plummer

References

Spiegelhalter DJ, Thomas A, Best NG and Lunn D (2004). WinBUGS User Manual, Version 2.0, June 2004, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.

See Also

read.coda.