qb.coda {qtlbim}R Documentation

Coerce to an MCMC object for use with the coda package.

Description

This function creates an object of class mcmc from an object of class qb produced by the package R/qtlbim.

Usage

qb.coda(qbObject, element, variables, ...)

Arguments

qbObject An object of class qb returned by calling the function qb.mcmc.
element A character string which has to one of "iterdiag", "mainloci", "pairloci", "covariates", or "gbye"; default is "iterdiag".
variables A vector of integers specifying the columns or column names of element to be considered. Details about the columns can be found in qb.mcmc
... Additional arguments to pass along (mostly ignored).

Details

This package requires the package coda.

Value

An object of class mcmc. This object could be used to analyze the MCMC output using R/coda.

Author(s)

Dr. Nengjun Yi, et al., nyi@ms.ssg.uab.edu

References

http://www.qtlbim.org

See Also

mcmc, qb.mcmc, plot.qb

Examples

     
data(qbExample)

## Default plots for iteration diagnostics "iterdiag".
temp <- qb.coda(qbExample)
plot(temp)

## Summaries for some "mainloci" elements.
temp <- qb.coda(qbExample, "mainloci")
plot(temp)

[Package qtlbim version 1.9.3 Index]