nlme (version 3.1-137)

formula.pdBlocked: Extract pdBlocked Formula

Description

The formula attributes of the pdMat elements of x are extracted and returned as a list, in case asList=TRUE, or converted to a single one-sided formula when asList=FALSE. If the pdMat elements do not have a formula attribute, a NULL value is returned.

Usage

# S3 method for pdBlocked
formula(x, asList, …)

Arguments

x

an object inheriting from class "pdBlocked", representing a positive definite block diagonal matrix.

asList

an optional logical value. If TRUE, a list with the formulas for the individual block diagonal elements of x is returned; else, if FALSE, a one-sided formula combining all individual formulas is returned. Defaults to FALSE.

…

some methods for this generic require additional arguments. None are used in this method.

Value

a list of one-sided formulas, or a single one-sided formula, or NULL.

See Also

pdBlocked, pdMat

Examples

# NOT RUN {
pd1 <- pdBlocked(list(~ age, ~ Sex - 1))
formula(pd1)
formula(pd1, asList = TRUE)
# }