nimble (version 1.2.1)

getMacroParameters: EXPERIMENTAL: Get list of parameter names generated by model macros

Description

Get a list of all parameter names (or certain categories of parameters) generated by model macros in the model code.

Usage

getMacroParameters(
  model,
  includeLHS = TRUE,
  includeRHS = TRUE,
  includeDeterm = TRUE,
  includeStoch = TRUE,
  includeIndexPars = FALSE
)

Value

A named list of generated parameters, with the element names corresponding to the original source macro.

Arguments

model

A NIMBLE model object

includeLHS

Include generated parameters on the left-hand side (LHS) of assignments (<- or ~) in the output

includeRHS

Include generated parameters on the left-hand side (RHS) of assignments (<- or ~) in the output

includeDeterm

Include deterministic generated parameters in the output

includeStoch

Include stochastic generated parameters in the output

includeIndexPars

Include index parameters generated for use in for loops in the output

Details

Some model macros will generate new parameters to be included in the output code. NIMBLE automatically detects these new parameters and records them in the model object. This function allows easy access to this stored list, or subsets of it (see arguments).

Examples

nimbleOptions(enableModelMacros = TRUE)
nimbleOptions(enableMacroComments = FALSE)
nimbleOptions(verbose = FALSE)

testMacro <- list(process = function(code, modelInfo, .env){
  code <- quote({
    for (i_ in 1:n){
      mu[i_] <- alpha + beta
      y[i_] ~ dnorm(0, sigma)
    }
    alpha ~ dnorm(0, 1)
  })
  list(code = code, modelInfo=modelInfo)
})
 class(testMacro) <- "model_macro"

code <- nimbleCode({
  y[1:n] ~ testMacro()
})

const <- list(y = rnorm(10), n = 10)

mod <- nimbleModel(code, constants=const)

mod$getMacroParameters()
# should be list(testMacro = list(c("mu", "alpha", "beta", "sigma")))

mod$getMacroParameters(includeRHS = FALSE)
# should be list(testMacro = list(c("mu", "alpha")))