Excel has a solver and Ryacas has limited ability to do symbolic solving: > library(Ryacas) > x <- Sym("x") > y <- Sym("y") > Solve(List(x + y == 1, x - y == 1), List(x, y)) [1] "Starting Yacas!" expression(list(list(x == 1 - y, y == 0)))
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Carl Witthoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd ask. For those who've never seen TK!Solver, I strongly > recommend taking a look. So far as I can tell, it's the only product of its > type available, retail or open source, for any platform. > What makes TK!Solver so cool is that it adaptively back-solves pretty much > any unknown from any set of equations you give it. (or vector full of > unknowns, producing a vector of results, and so on) > > I've been bummed for years 'cause the original package ran on Macs (inthe > OS-4 days) but is now only available for WinBlows -- and is getting > expensive. So: what sort of back-solver tools or packages are there in R, > if any? > > thanks > Carl > > ______________________________________________ > 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.