

_D_e_t_e_r_m_i_n_e _t_h_e _O_r_d_e_r _o_f _a _S_p_l_i_n_e

     splineOrder(object)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  object: An object that inherits from class `spline'.

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Return the order of the object.  The order of a spline
     is the number of coefficients in each piece of the
     piecewise polynomial representation.  Thus a cubic
     spline has order 4.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An integer vector of length 1.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Douglas Bates and Bill Venables

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     `splineKnots', `interpSpline', `periodicSpline'

