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Hi everyone,
I am trying to return values of an OpenMx object from optimized mxModel by get() (more details could be found in attached). Is there any other way to return the value of an OpenMx object by string? Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure what you mean by "return the values of an OpenMx object". You can save the final state of a model to a file with
mxSave
or get the free parameters withcoef
(see?omxGetParameters
). You can evaluate algebras withmxEval
and write those values to files with e.g.write.csv
. Hopefully this helps. If not, more details please.Hi Michael,
Thanks for your informative reply. I want to evaluate algebras; for example, I have a series of algebras named "c1mean", "c2mean", ..., "ckmean". What I want is to create strings by paste0("c", 1:k, "mean"), change them to object names, and to evaluate them. Do you have suggestions about it? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Perhaps adhere the 1 thru k algebras into a single algebra with
cbind()
and/orrbind()
, and usemxEval()
to evaluate that single algebra?At any rate, the function
mxEvalByName()
may be useful to you, in case you didn't know about it already.Thank you very much! mxEvalByName() is what I want.
Dr. Kirk,
After having point estimates by mxEvalByName(), I still want to have the SEs, which I thought can be realized by mxSE(). Yet I got some errors as attached, which might be due to mxAlgebra(). I tried to find the string version of mxSE(), but failed. How can I fix this error? Any advice would be appreciated.
Try passing argument
forceName=TRUE
tomxSE()
.Dr. Kirk,
It works! Thank you very much!
Glad to hear it!
you probably don't want to use get(). things inside models are not in the global name space (same reason get(mpg) won't return the mpg column of mtcars dataframe...
You might want mxEval() and mxEvalByName()
So, if we bang out a quick twin model, and interogate it:
I think Veronica wants
mxAlgebraFromString()
and thenmxEval()
that algebra. It it something like this.Of course, there is another consideration. You may want to re-think your model construction so that you don't need to do this. For example, you could have a matrix like this
Anywhere you want to use 'c3mean' just refer to it by name. This way you don't need to construct 'Jerry' because you started with 'JerryM'.
Thanks for all kind and detailed replies! I created several expressions (c1mean, c2mean, ..., ckmean) using mxAlgebraFromString() and want to return their values by character name. I tried mxEvalByName() and it worked well. I really appreciate it.