Have you tried: ?NextMethod
? -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Gene Leynes <gleyne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was trying to understand the boxcox function in MASS to get a better > understanding of where and how the log-Likelihood values are calculated. > > By using "debug(boxcox)" I found this code while running the examples: > >> m <- length(lambda) >> object <- lm(object, y = TRUE, qr = TRUE, ...) >> result <- NextMethod() > > > Can someone tell me how this is optimizing the values for Lambda? I'm > assuming that it has something to do with the qr decomposition that happens > in lm? > > > Thank you, > > Gene > > > > > Notes and disclaimers: > > - Yes, I read the help for NextMethod and boxcox. > - I don't think my OS / R / MASS versions are relevant but if you must > know I happen to be on Windows 8 right now and using R version 3.0.2 > (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing", Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 > (64-bit). MASS version is 7.3-29. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
