gam.setup                package:mgcv                R Documentation

Generalized additive model set up

Description:

     This is an internal function of package 'mgcv'. It is called  by
     'gam' to obtain the design matrix and penalty matrices for a GAM
     set up using penalized regression splines. This is done by calling
     a mixture of R routines and compiled C code.  For further
     information on usuage see code for 'gam'.

Author(s):

     Simon N. Wood simon.wood@r-project.org

References:

     Wood S.N. (2006) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with
     R. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.

See Also:

     'gam', 'gamm', 'magic', 'mgcv'

