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rv (version 2.0.0)

as.double.rv: Coercing Random Vectors to Real-valued

Description

Coerces random vector objects into double-valued ones.

Usage

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

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.

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244.

See also vignette("rv").

Examples

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

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