Handle user-supplied posterior draws

Usage

user_draws(model, draws, ...)

# S3 method for class 'gam'
user_draws(model, draws, index = NULL, ...)

Arguments

model: a fitted R model. Currently only models fitted by mgcv::gam() or mgcv::bam(), or return an object that inherits from such objects are supported. Here, "inherits" is used in a loose fashion; models fitted by scam::scam() are support even though those models don't strictly inherit from class "gam" as far as inherits() is concerned.
draws: matrix; user supplied posterior draws to be used when method = "user".
...: arguments passed to methods.
index: a vector to index (subset) the columns of draws.

Details

The supplied draws must be a matrix (currently), with 1 column per model coefficient, and 1 row per posterior draw. The "gam" method has argument index, which can be used to subset (select) coefficients (columns) of draws. index can be any valid way of selecting (indexing) columns of a matrix. index is useful if you have a set of posterior draws for the entire model (say from mgcv::gam.mh()) and you wish to use those draws for an individual smooth, via smooth_samples().