splineOrder {splines} | R Documentation |
Determine the Order of a Spline
Description
Return the order of a spline object.
Usage
splineOrder(object)
Arguments
object |
An object that inherits from class |
Details
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.
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 ) )