Extract draws of a single variable

Extract a vector of draws of a single variable.

extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

# S3 method for default
extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

# S3 method for draws
extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

# S3 method for draws_df
extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

# S3 method for draws_list
extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

# S3 method for draws_rvars
extract_variable(x, variable, ...)

Arguments

x

(draws) A draws object or another R object for which the method is defined.

variable

(string) The name of the variable to extract. Must include indices for array variables (e.g. "x[1]", "y[1,2]"). To extract all dimensions from variables with indices, use extract_variable_array().

...

Arguments passed to individual methods (if applicable).

Value

A vector of length equal to the number of draws.

See also

Other variable extraction methods: extract_variable_array(), extract_variable_matrix()

Examples

x <- example_draws()
mu <- extract_variable(x, variable = "mu")
str(mu)
#>  num [1:400] 2.01 1.46 5.81 6.85 1.81 ...