splineOrder {splines}R Documentation

Determine the Order of a Spline

Description

Return the order of a spline object.

Usage

splineOrder(object)

Arguments

object An object that inherits from class spline.

Details

The order of a spline is the number of coefficients in each piece of the piecewise polynomial representation. Thus a cubic spline has order 4.

Value

An integer vector of length 1.

Author(s)

Douglas Bates and Bill Venables

See Also

splineKnots, interpSpline, periodicSpline

Examples

library( splines )
data( women )
splineOrder( interpSpline( weight ~ height, women ) )


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