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update-methods {stats4}R Documentation

Methods for Function ‘update’ in Package ‘stats4’

Description

Update "mle" objects.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'mle'
update(object, ..., evaluate = TRUE)

Arguments

object

An existing fit.

...

Additional arguments to the call, or arguments with changed values. Use name=NULL to remove the argument name.

evaluate

If true evaluate the new call else return the call.

Methods

object = "ANY"

Generic function: see update.

object = "mle"

Update a fit.

Examples

x <- 0:10
y <- c(26, 17, 13, 12, 20, 5, 9, 8, 5, 4, 8)
ll <- function(ymax=15, xhalf=6)
    -sum(stats::dpois(y, lambda=ymax/(1+x/xhalf), log=TRUE))
fit <- mle(ll)
## note the recorded call contains ..1, a problem with S4 dispatch
update(fit, fixed=list(xhalf=3))

[Package stats4 version 2.9.0 ]