Number of Parameters — npars.term • term

Gets the number of parameters of an object.

The default methods returns the length of pars() if none are NA, otherwise it returns NA.

# S3 method for term
npars(x, scalar = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x: An object.
scalar: A flag specifying whether to by default return all parameters (NULL), or only scalar parameters (TRUE) or only non-scalar parameters (FALSE).
...: Other arguments passed to methods.

Value

An integer scalar of the number of parameters.

See also

Other MCMC dimensions: nchains(), niters(), nsams(), nsims(), nterms()

Other parameters: pars(), set_pars()

Examples

npars(term("sigma", "alpha[1]", "alpha[2]", "beta[1,1]", "beta[2,1]"))
#> [1] 3