inla.mdata {INLA} | R Documentation

## Create an mdata-object for INLA

### Description

This defines an mdata-object for matrix valued response-families

### Usage

    inla.mdata(y, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'inla.mdata'
    print(x, ...)

    as.inla.mdata(object)

    is.inla.mdata(object)

### Arguments

`y` | The response vector/matrix
`...` | Additional vectors/matrics of same length as `y`
`x` | An mdata object
`object` | Any `R`-object

### Value

An object of class `inla.mdata`. There is method for `print`.

`is.inla.mdata` returns `TRUE` if `object` inherits from class `inla.mdata`, otherwise `FALSE`.

`as.inla.mdata` returns an object of class `inla.mdata`

### Note

It is often required to set `Y=inla.mdata(...)` and then define the formula as `Y~...`, especially when used with `inla.stack`.

### Author(s)

Havard Rue

### See Also

`inla()`

[Package INLA version 26.02.05 Index]