R: Logical Check of Data

is.data {LaplacesDemon} | R Documentation

## Logical Check of Data

### Description

This function provides a logical test of whether or not a given list of data meets minimum criteria to be considered data for `IterativeQuadrature`, `LaplaceApproximation`, `LaplacesDemon`, `PMC`, or `VariationalBayes`.

### Usage

    is.data(Data)

### Arguments

`Data` | This is a list of data. For more information, see the `LaplacesDemon` function.

### Details

This function is useful for testing whether or not a list of data meets minimum criteria to be considered data in this package. The minimum requirements are that `Data` is a list, and it contains `mon.names` and `parm.names`.

This function is not extensive. For example, it does not match the length of `parm.names` with the length of `Initial.Values`, or compare the length of `mon.names` to the number of monitored variables output from the `Model` specification function. Additional checks are conducted in `IterativeQuadrature`, `LaplaceApproximation`, `LaplacesDemon`, `PMC`, and `VariationalBayes`.

### Value

The `is.data` function returns a logical value. It returns `TRUE` if `Data` meets minimum requirements to be considered data in this package, and `FALSE` otherwise.

### Author(s)

Statisticat, LLC. software@bayesian-inference.com

### See Also

`IterativeQuadrature` `LaplaceApproximation`, `LaplacesDemon`, `PMC`, and `VariationalBayes`.

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