Hello, I am working on a simple ODE problem with the deSolve package, and I was hoping that someone could answer a question about how the deSolve package does integration.
Here is my program: #The function STDMod<-function(t,y,p){ IH = y[1]; IL = y[2]; with(as.list(p), { dIH.dt = Beta[1,1]*(nH-IH)*IH + Beta[1,2]*(nH-IH)*IL - gamma*IH; dIL.dt = Beta[2,1]*(nL-IL)*IH + Beta[2,2]*(nL-IL)*IL - gamma*IL; return(list(c(dIH.dt,dIL.dt))); }) } #giving the parameters Beta = matrix(data=c(10, 0.1, 0.1, 1.0), ncol=2, nrow=2) nH = 0.2 nL = 0.8 IH0 = 1e-5 IL0 = 0 gamma = 1 p = list(Beta=Beta, gamma=gamma, nH=nH, nL=nL) y0 = c(IH0, IL0) #Running the ode integrator steps= 10; t = seq(from=0, to=30, by=.01); out = ode(y=y0, times=t, func=STDMod, parms=p); My understanding is that the 'out' matrix would be the values of the STDmod function at each time step, given the initial values of the state parameters IH and IL. However, for the very first time step, I am getting a value different than what the derivative and the initial values add up to. My output: <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4707448/ROutput.png> but 'IH0' + 'the value of dIH.dt = Beta[1,1]*(nH-IH)*IH + Beta[1,2]*(nH-IH)*IL - gamma*IH for timestep one' = 1.999e-5. Is there something that I am missing? I am hoping to use this for more complicated derivatives, but I want to make sure I am using the package correctly first. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/deSolve-ODE-Output-Question-tp4707448.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.