[R] A question about plot.mcmc

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Tengfei Yin wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have mone quick question I am not quite familiar with, for generic
> function plot, why some methods are marked by '*', I think  
> plot(as.mcmc())
> may dispatch the right method, I try to use get to view the  
> function, but it
> seems that get() only works for the one with no "*", e.g.  
> get('plot.ecdf')
>
> get('plot.mcmc*') doesn't work, why?

?getAnywhere

>
>
>> methods('plot')
> [1] plot.acf*           plot.data.frame*    plot.Date*
> [4] plot.decomposed.ts* plot.default        plot.dendrogram*
> [7] plot.density        plot.ecdf           plot.factor*
> [10] plot.formula*       plot.hclust*        plot.histogram*
> [13] plot.HoltWinters*   plot.isoreg*        plot.lm
> [16] plot.mcmc*          plot.mcmc.list*     plot.medpolish*
> [19] plot.mlm            plot.POSIXct*       plot.POSIXlt*
> [22] plot.ppr*           plot.prcomp*        plot.princomp*
> [25] plot.profile.nls*   plot.shingle*       plot.spec
> [28] plot.spec.coherency plot.spec.phase     plot.stepfun
> [31] plot.stl*           plot.table*         plot.trellis*
> [34] plot.ts             plot.tskernel*      plot.TukeyHSD
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tengfei
> 2010/4/21 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>
>>
>>
>> On 21.04.2010 20:31, Xiao D wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List members,
>>> I am using R to generate MCMC time series plots.
>>> This is the code I use; however, everytime an error message will  
>>> come out
>>> saying could not find function "plot.mcmc."
>>> I have coda package and Lattice package installed.
>>> Does anyone know what may get wrong here? Thanks so much for your
>>> suggestions.
>>> Hongli Li
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Just say plot(mcmcobject)
>>
>> The plot generic should call the appropriate methode plot.mcmc that  
>> is
>> hidden in the code namespace.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> *library (coda)
>>> dat1=read.csv("Itemtime.csv")
>>> col=dim(dat1)[2]
>>> dat1=dat1[,3:col]
>>> pdf("Itemtime.pdf")
>>> plot.mcmc(as.mcmc(dat1),ask=FALSE)
>>> dev.off()
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>
> -- 
> Tengfei Yin
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David Winsemius, MD
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