buildMCMC {BRugs} | R Documentation

## Generating mcmc.list objects for package coda

### Description

This functions reads samples from OpenBUGS and converts the results into an object of class mcmc.list that can directly be used by package coda for further analysis.

### Usage

    buildMCMC(node, beg = samplesGetBeg(), end = samplesGetEnd(),
        firstChain = samplesGetFirstChain(),
        lastChain = samplesGetLastChain(), thin = samplesGetThin())

### 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.
`thin` | To only use every `thin`-th value of the stored sample.

### 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

An object of class `mcmc.list` which is a list containing `mcmc` objects.

### See Also

`mcmc.list`, `mcmc`, `BRugs`, `help.WinBUGS`

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