as.double.rv {rv}R Documentation

Coercing Random Vectors to Real-valued

Description

Coerces random vector objects into double-valued ones.

Usage

  ## S3 method for class 'rv':
  as.double(x, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'rv':
  as.real(x, ...)

Arguments

x an rv object
... other arguments

Details

as.double coerces an rv object into double-valued one. In effect, the function as.double is applied to all simulations.

as.real is a synonym.

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.

See Also

integer.rv

Examples

  x <- as.logical(rvbern(prob=0.5)) 
  print(x)
  print(as.double(x))

[Package rv version 0.949 Index]