save.model {MIfuns}R Documentation

Save WinBUGS results in a specified directory

Description

save.model saves several files resulting from a WinBUGS MCMC simulation to a specified directory. The saved items include the BUGS model file, the R script used to launch WinBUGS via the R2WinBUGS function bugs, and the R object generated by bugs that contains the MCMC simulations. Some additional intermediate files are also saved if they have not been deleted by bugs.

Usage

save.model(bugs.output, model.name, parent.dir = ".")

Arguments

bugs.output list object produced by bugs. See documentation of R2WinBUGS for details.
model.name character string for name of the BUGS language model file minus the .txt extension. This will also be the name of the directory to which the files are saved.
parent.dir charater string for the name of an already existing directory that will be the parent directory for the new "model.name" directory. Default is the current working directory.

Details

Successfukl use of save.model requires that the BUGS language model file and the R script in which it is used have the names paste(model.name,".txt",sep="") and paste(model.name,".R",sep=""), respectively.

Author(s)

Developed by Metrum Institute (Bill Gillespie and others).

References

MIfuns package available from Metrum Institute website (http://metruminstitute.org/).


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