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This method allows to update an existing brmsfit object.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'brmsfit'
update(object, formula., newdata = NULL, recompile = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class brmsfit.

formula.

Changes to the formula; for details see update.formula and brmsformula.

newdata

Optional data.frame to update the model with new data. Data-dependent default priors will not be updated automatically.

recompile

Logical, indicating whether the Stan model should be recompiled. If NULL (the default), update tries to figure out internally, if recompilation is necessary. Setting it to FALSE will cause all Stan code changing arguments to be ignored.

...

Other arguments passed to brm.

Details

When updating a brmsfit created with the cmdstanr backend in a different R session, a recompilation will be triggered because by default, cmdstanr writes the model executable to a temporary directory. To avoid that, set option "cmdstanr_write_stan_file_dir" to a nontemporary path of your choice before creating the original brmsfit (see section 'Examples' below).

Examples

# \dontrun{
fit1 <- brm(time | cens(censored) ~ age * sex + disease + (1|patient),
            data = kidney, family = gaussian("log"))
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#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#bulk-ess
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#> https://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#tail-ess
summary(fit1)
#> Warning: Inference for the model posterior has not converged (some Rhats are > 1.05). Be careful when analysing the results! We recommend running more iterations or setting stronger priors.
#> Warning: There were 3248 divergent transitions after warmup. Increasing adapt_delta above 0.8 may help. See http://mc-stan.org/misc/warnings.html#divergent-transitions-after-warmup
#>  Family: gaussian 
#>   Links: mu = log 
#> Formula: time | cens(censored) ~ age * sex + disease + (1 | patient) 
#>    Data: kidney (Number of observations: 76) 
#>   Draws: 4 chains, each with iter = 2000; warmup = 1000; thin = 1;
#>          total post-warmup draws = 4000
#> 
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#> ~patient (Number of levels: 38) 
#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sd(Intercept)     1.91      1.38     0.23     3.95 5.28        4       NA
#> 
#> Regression Coefficients:
#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> Intercept         2.81     10.05   -14.53     9.43 5.76        4        4
#> age              -0.60      0.31    -0.87    -0.07 5.76        4       NA
#> sexfemale        -0.02      1.83    -1.93     1.90 5.42        4       NA
#> diseaseGN        -0.31      1.48    -1.90     1.77 3.93        4        4
#> diseaseAN        -1.31      0.70    -1.78    -0.11 5.16        4       NA
#> diseasePKD        0.03      0.44    -0.72     0.44 4.17        5       22
#> age:sexfemale     0.72      0.11     0.57     0.87 5.72        4        4
#> 
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#>       Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sigma     2.38      0.96     1.60     4.01 5.51        4       NA
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#> Draws were sampled using sampling(NUTS). For each parameter, Bulk_ESS
#> and Tail_ESS are effective sample size measures, and Rhat is the potential
#> scale reduction factor on split chains (at convergence, Rhat = 1).

## remove effects of 'disease'
fit2 <- update(fit1, formula. = ~ . - disease)
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#> Formula: time | cens(censored) ~ age + sex + (1 | patient) + age:sex 
#>    Data: kidney (Number of observations: 76) 
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#> ~patient (Number of levels: 38) 
#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI  Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sd(Intercept)     2.08      1.69     0.41     4.62 12.76        4       NA
#> 
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#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI  Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> Intercept       -28.30     39.42   -79.50    11.58 13.15        4        4
#> age               0.14      0.97    -0.93     1.45 13.15        4       NA
#> sexfemale         0.12      1.10    -1.08     1.77  9.40        4       NA
#> age:sexfemale     0.67      0.14     0.49     0.87  5.97        4        4
#> 
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#>       Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sigma     4.91      2.23     2.00     7.54 5.97        4       11
#> 
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#> and Tail_ESS are effective sample size measures, and Rhat is the potential
#> scale reduction factor on split chains (at convergence, Rhat = 1).

## remove the group specific term of 'patient' and
## change the data (just take a subset in this example)
fit3 <- update(fit1, formula. = ~ . - (1|patient),
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#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> Intercept       -53.42    104.09  -363.93    10.53 1.36       10       84
#> age              -0.19      2.36    -6.37     3.72 1.28       20       40
#> sexfemale        58.96    104.12    -4.90   369.67 1.37        9       84
#> diseaseGN        -4.92     14.60   -58.97     0.22 1.45        8       11
#> diseaseAN      -177.68    382.81 -1335.14    -1.18 1.60        7       13
#> diseasePKD     -157.22    403.90 -1606.74     0.07 1.93        6       20
#> age:sexfemale     0.19      2.36    -3.73     6.36 1.29       20       40
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#>       Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sigma   109.56     38.01     1.48   154.88 1.47        8       11
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#> and Tail_ESS are effective sample size measures, and Rhat is the potential
#> scale reduction factor on split chains (at convergence, Rhat = 1).

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#>    Data: kidney (Number of observations: 76) 
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#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> sd(Intercept)     0.54      0.25     0.04     1.00 1.01      573      691
#> 
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#>               Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
#> Intercept         2.88      0.93     1.13     4.74 1.00     2123     2676
#> age               0.02      0.02    -0.03     0.07 1.00     1703     2509
#> sexfemale         2.77      1.10     0.56     4.87 1.00     2106     2416
#> diseaseGN        -0.27      0.50    -1.28     0.71 1.00     2531     2835
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#> diseasePKD        0.75      0.72    -0.69     2.12 1.00     2285     2604
#> age:sexfemale    -0.03      0.03    -0.08     0.02 1.00     1945     2244
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#> shape     1.12      0.16     0.86     1.46 1.00     1251     2546
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#> and Tail_ESS are effective sample size measures, and Rhat is the potential
#> scale reduction factor on split chains (at convergence, Rhat = 1).

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## R session, set option 'cmdstanr_write_stan_file_dir' before creating the
## initial 'brmsfit'
## CAUTION: the following code creates some files in the current working
## directory: two 'model_<hash>.stan' files, one 'model_<hash>(.exe)'
## executable, and one 'fit_cmdstanr_<some_number>.rds' file
set.seed(7)
fname <- paste0("fit_cmdstanr_", sample.int(.Machine$integer.max, 1))
options(cmdstanr_write_stan_file_dir = getwd())
fit_cmdstanr <- brm(rate ~ conc + state,
                    data = Puromycin,
                    backend = "cmdstanr",
                    file = fname)
# now restart the R session and run the following (after attaching 'brms')
set.seed(7)
fname <- paste0("fit_cmdstanr_", sample.int(.Machine$integer.max, 1))
fit_cmdstanr <- brm(rate ~ conc + state,
                    data = Puromycin,
                    backend = "cmdstanr",
                    file = fname)
upd_cmdstanr <- update(fit_cmdstanr,
                       formula. = rate ~ conc)
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