| big.brother {diversitree} | R Documentation |
This is for making function evaluations more verbose;
big.brother returns a function that prints its arguments and
return value every iteration (or every several iterations if
interval is specified)
big.brother(f, interval=1)
f |
A function |
interval |
Interval between printed evaluations |
Using this directly on the likelihood functions may lead to unintended consequences as it affects the class attribute of the likelihood function and stop it causing the correct MLE function being dispatched. Probably best to leave this alone.
Richard G. FitzJohn