Find smooth terms from a model object

Return the names of smooth terms from a model object.

Usage

find_smooth(x, flatten = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A (gam) model.

flatten

Logical, if TRUE, the values are returned as character vector, not as list. Duplicated values are removed.

Value

A character vector with the name(s) of the smooth terms.

Examples

if (require("mgcv")) {
  data(iris)
  model <- gam(Petal.Length ~ Petal.Width + s(Sepal.Length), data = iris)
  find_smooth(model)
}
#> Loading required package: mgcv
#> Loading required package: nlme
#> 
#> Attaching package: ‘nlme’
#> The following object is masked from ‘package:lme4’:
#> 
#>     lmList
#> This is mgcv 1.8-42. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
#> 
#> Attaching package: ‘mgcv’
#> The following objects are masked from ‘package:brms’:
#> 
#>     s, t2
#> $smooth_terms
#> [1] "s(Sepal.Length)"
#>