is.atomic.rv {rv}R Documentation

Random vectors are atomic

Description

is.atomic(x) returns TRUE for rv objects. This is necessary to make R believe that rvs are as good as other vectors.

Usage

  ## S3 method for class 'rv':
  is.atomic(x)

Arguments

x an object

Details

is.atomic.rv

Author(s)

Jouni Kerman kerman@stat.columbia.edu http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~kerman

References

Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical report, Columbia University, New York.

Examples

  is.atomic(rvnorm(1)) # TRUE, believe it or not.

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