splineOrder(splines)R Documentation

Determine the Order of a Spline

Description

Return the order of the object. The order of a spline is the number of coefficients in each piece of the piecewise polynomial representation. Thus a cubic spline has order 4.

Usage

splineOrder(object)

Arguments

object An object that inherits from class spline.

Value

An integer vector of length 1.

Author(s)

Douglas Bates and Bill Venables

See Also

splineKnots, interpSpline, periodicSpline

Examples

library( splines )
data( women )
splineOrder( interpSpline( weight ~ height, women ) )

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