The unlist-sapply-seq_len bit is unnecessarily convoluted, since the infcprodessa function can accept vector inputs.
z <- infcprodessa( ab$a, TINF, ab$b, ab$b-TINF ) possibles <- ab[ z >= 15 & z <= 20, ] possibles[ which.min( possibles$a ), ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Berend Hasselman <b...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >On 26-01-2013, at 12:31, Andras Farkas <motyoc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> Sorry Jeff, probably the new version of Yahoo mail doing the html, I >switched back to the older one hope that takes care of the problem. Let >me clarify the code below: >> >> TINF <-1 >> a <-c(500,750,1000,1250,1500,1750,2000) >> b <-c(8,12,18,24,36,48,60,72,96) >> >> infcprodessa <-function (D, tin, tau, ts) >> (D * (1 - exp(-0.048 * tin))/(tin * (0.048*79) * (1 - exp(-0.048 >* tau)))) * exp(-0.048 * (ts - tin)) >> >> z <-sapply(1:1, function(n) infcprodessa(a,TINF,b,b-TINF)) >> >> so I am looking to find the combination of a = 1000 and b = 12, which >iz a value for "z" that would fall between 15 and 20. Sometimes though >there may be more than one combinations that will meet criteria, in >that case I would like to select the combination based on the smallest >"a" value that has the respective "b" value to meet the criteria, >> > >ab <- expand.grid(a=a,b=b) >z <- unlist(sapply(seq_len(nrow(ab)), function(k) >infcprodessa(ab[k,1],TINF,ab[k,2],ab[k,2]-TINF))) > >z.target <- which(z>=15 & z<=20) >ab[z.target,] >z[z.target] >which.min(ab[z.target,][,"a"]) > >Berend > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.