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needUpdate

Check if Update is Needed

Description

This function is generic; method functions can be written to handle specific classes of objects. By default, it tries to extract a needUpdate attribute of object. If this is NULL or FALSE it returns FALSE; else it returns TRUE. Updating of objects usually takes place in iterative algorithms in which auxiliary quantities associated with the object, and not being optimized over, may change.

Usage

needUpdate(object)

Arguments

object

any object

Value

a logical value indicating whether object needs to be updated.

Author(s)

José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu

Examples

vf1 <- varExp()
vf1 <- Initialize(vf1, data = Orthodont)
needUpdate(vf1)

nlme

Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models

v3.1-152

GPL (>= 2) | file LICENCE

Authors

José Pinheiro [aut] (S version), Douglas Bates [aut] (up to 2007), Saikat DebRoy [ctb] (up to 2002), Deepayan Sarkar [ctb] (up to 2005), EISPACK authors [ctb] (src/rs.f), Siem Heisterkamp [ctb] (Author fixed sigma), Bert Van Willigen [ctb] (Programmer fixed sigma), Johannes Ranke [ctb] (varConstProp()), R-core [aut, cre]

Initial release

2021-02-03