Creates a single MCMC output object that links together the output from 2 different runs. To be used when analyses are run serially on a single dataset, with subsequent runs initiated at the parameter values estimated in the last generation of the previous MCMC run.
link.up.posteriors(MCMC.output1, MCMC.output2, linked.up.output.file.name)
The first (chronologically) MCMC output to be incorporated into the linked-up output object.
The second (chronologically) MCMC output to be incorporated into the linked-up output object.
The linked-up MCMC object file name. The suffix ".Robj" will be appended to the user-specified name.
Gideon Bradburd
Acceptance rates are re-calculated to be consistent across the new, larger MCMC object. The function is also flexible with respect to the model parameterization (e.g. - it will recognize, for example, whether users have specified the standard or beta-binomial models, or whether users have specified one, or more than one, alphaE parameters).