pymer4.io

Functions to load and save models and datasets

pymer4.io.load_dataset(name)

Loads csv file included with package as a polars DataFrame

pymer4.io.load_model(filepath)

Function for loading pymer4 models. A file path ending in .joblib should be provided. For Lmer models an additional filepath.robj should be located in the same directory.

Parameters:

• model (pymer4.models) – an instance of a pymer4 model

• filepath (str) – full filepath string ending with .joblib

pymer4.io.save_model(model, filepath, **kwargs)

Function for saving pymer4 models. All models are saved using joblib.dump files so filepath extensions should end with .joblib. For Lmer models an additional filepath.robj file will be created to retain all R objects.

Parameters:

• model (pymer4.models) – an instance of a pymer4 model

• filepath (str) – full filepath string ending .joblib

• kwargs – optional keyword arguments to joblib.dump