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<p><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Does anyone
know how to use the –mcr command line option to resume a MCMc run? </span><span
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Our understanding
based on the manual is that the</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>–mcr command should allow an MCMC run to be re-started from
where it left off (i.e.</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>if I’ve just run 100,000 simulations and then discover that I
need 500,000, I can restart the run from the 100,000<sup>th</sup> simulation</span>
<span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>rather than
starting again from scratch). Is that</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>the correct interpretation, or</span> <span style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>is the command</span> <span
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>rather designed
to restart an MCMC</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>run that has been paused midway?</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>If</span>
<span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>the first interpretation
is</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>correct,
then what would be the appropriate command? For example, if I’ve just run</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>filename</span>
<span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>–mcmc
100000</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>–mcsave
100</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>How do I
run the</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>additional
simulations?</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>filename</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>– mcmc 400000</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>–mcsave 100</span> <span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>–mcr</span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'> is apparently not the right answer.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Many
thanks indeed for your help on this</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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