Type: Package
Package: INLAtools
Title: Functionalities for the 'INLA' Package
Version: 0.1.4
Authors@R: c(
    person("Elias", "Teixeira Krainski", , "elias.krainski@kaust.edu.sa", role = c("cre", "aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7063-2615")),
    person("Finn", "Lindgren", , "finn.lindgren@gmail.com", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5833-2011")),
    person("Haavard", "Rue’", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0222-1881"))
  )
Maintainer: Elias Teixeira Krainski <elias.krainski@kaust.edu.sa>
Description: Contain code to work with a C struct, in short cgeneric, to
    define a Gaussian Markov random (GMRF) model.  The cgeneric contain
    code to specify GMRF elements such as the graph and the precision
    matrix, and also the initial and prior for its parameters, useful for
    model inference.  It can be accessed from a C program and is the
    recommended way to implement new GMRF models in the 'INLA' package
    (<https://www.r-inla.org>).  The 'INLAtools' implement functions to
    evaluate each one of the model specifications from R.  The implemented
    functionalities leverage the use of 'cgeneric' models and provide a
    way to debug the code as well to work with the prior for the model
    parameters and to sample from it.  The `generic0` can be used to
    implement intrinsic models with the scaling as proposed in Sørbye &
    Rue (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2013.06.004>, and the required
    constraints.  A very useful functionality is the Kronecker product
    method that creates a new model from multiple cgeneric models.  It
    also works with the rgeneric, the R version of the cgeneric intended
    to easy try implementation of new GMRF models.  The Kronecker between
    two cgeneric models where each one needs a constraint, such as
    spatio-temporal intrinsic interaction models, the needed constraints
    are automatically set.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: https://github.com/eliaskrainski/INLAtools
BugReports: https://github.com/eliaskrainski/INLAtools/issues
Depends: Matrix, R (>= 4.3)
Imports: methods, utils
Encoding: UTF-8
NeedsCompilation: yes
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Packaged: 2026-05-04 13:12:02 UTC; eliask
Author: Elias Teixeira Krainski [cre, aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7063-2615>),
  Finn Lindgren [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5833-2011>),
  Haavard Rue’ [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-1881>)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-04 14:50:13 UTC
