Read the troubleshooting section on the home page: http://ryacas.googlecode.com Note, in particular, that it currently only works with an older version of the XML package.
> library(Ryacas) > packageDescription("XML")$Version [1] "1.96-0" > x <- Sym("x") > Integrate(x*x, x) [1] "Starting Yacas!" expression(x^3/3) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, ZeMajik <zema...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys, Ryacas is pretty much what I'm looking for!However, I can't > seem to get it to work properly. > > For example: > >> yacas("Integrate(x) x") > Error in parse(text = text, srcfile = NULL) : > unexpected numeric constant in ""/" ("^" (x ,2 2" > > Same thing with expressions such as yacas("x*x") > > However > >> yacas("2*2") > expression(4) > > So it seems there is a successful connection between yacas and R. > I didn't find any info on the problem by googling it unfortunately! Any > ideas what it might be? > > Thanks again, > M > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez > <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Zemajik, >> Try this: >> >> > y <- function(a) paste(a, '*x', sep="") >> > y(2) >> [1] "2*x" >> >> Also, take a look at the Ryacas package. >> >> HTH, >> Jorge >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM, ZeMajik <> wrote: >> >>> Hey, >>> I'm trying to find how to perform operations with a variable treated as a >>> symbol. >>> For, an extremely simple, example I want to integrate a*x with respect to >>> x >>> and I want to find the indefinite integral of this, (a*x^2/2), or the >>> definite integral with some interval for x. >>> >>> Another example of such a use would be to create a function >>> y<-function(x) {a*x} >>> and by typig y(2) I would get the result 2*a >>> >>> Is there a way to treat variables as merely "symbols"? >>> Any help much appreciated >>> >>> -M >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.