Re: [R] Solving equations

2014-09-07 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 08-09-2014, at 06:55, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > No. I was not looking for an answer to that question. I wasn't clear :-) I > already code using Octave and R to solve ML algorithms. > > I am trying to understand how R packages can help us to solve such > equations using LU decomposition

Re: [R] Solving equations

2014-09-07 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
No. I was not looking for an answer to that question. I wasn't clear :-) I already code using Octave and R to solve ML algorithms. I am trying to understand how R packages can help us to solve such equations using LU decomposition etc. The question was about using R with these math algorithms. M

Re: [R] Solving equations

2014-09-07 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Inline. Em 07-09-2014 09:54, Mohan Radhakrishnan escreveu: Hi, I code R to parse data but not for solving equations. So this is my first such problem. It is a programming puzzle. I have these two equations. 1)4x - 3w = 0 2)8x - 7w =0 I know the value of x and w for

Re: [R] Solving equations

2014-09-07 Thread David Winsemius
In my education this was 9th or 10th grade (US) math. The r-help mailing list is not set up for providing mini-tutorials on R programming. Please read the Posting Guide, do the expected self-eduction in R programming, do the requested searching on your remaining questions in the Archives or Stac

[R] Solving equations

2014-09-07 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, I code R to parse data but not for solving equations. So this is my first such problem. It is a programming puzzle. I have these two equations. 1)4x - 3w = 0 2)8x - 7w =0 I know the value of x and w for equation 1). x = 3 and w = 4 equation 2). x = 7 and w = 8 I also kno

Re: [R] solving equations symbolically

2013-06-18 Thread Erin Hodgess
Solved: it's in the Ryacas vignette: > yacas("Solve(1-(R/100) == (2*y)/1,R)") expression(list(R == 100 * (1 - 2 * y/1))) > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I have the following equation: > $1 - \frac{R}{100} = \frac{2y}{1}$ > and I was wond

[R] solving equations symbolically

2013-06-18 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I have the following equation: $1 - \frac{R}{100} = \frac{2y}{1}$ and I was wondering if there was a way in R to solve for R (no pun intended). I'm experimenting with Ryacas, but nothing yet. Version R-3.0.1 on Windows 7. Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor De

Re: [R] Solving equations in R

2012-07-23 Thread Berend Hasselman
Diviya Smith wrote > > Hi there, > > I would like to solve the following equation in R to estimate 'a'. I have > the amp, d, x and y. > > amp*y^2 = 2*a*(1-a)*(-a*d+(1-a)*x)^2 > > test data: >amp = 0.2370 y= > 0.0233 d= > 0.002 x= > 0.091 > Can anyone suggest how I can set this up? > Thi

Re: [R] Solving equations in R

2012-07-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/07/2012 2:46 PM, Diviya Smith wrote: Hi there, I would like to solve the following equation in R to estimate 'a'. I have the amp, d, x and y. amp*y^2 = 2*a*(1-a)*(-a*d+(1-a)*x)^2 test data: amp = 0.2370 y= 0.0233 d= 0.002 x= 0.091 Can anyone suggest how I can set this up? See ?pol

[R] Solving equations in R

2012-07-23 Thread Diviya Smith
Hi there, I would like to solve the following equation in R to estimate 'a'. I have the amp, d, x and y. amp*y^2 = 2*a*(1-a)*(-a*d+(1-a)*x)^2 test data: amp = 0.2370 y= 0.0233 d= 0.002 x= 0.091 Can anyone suggest how I can set this up? Thanks, Diviya [[alternative HTML version dele

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-24 Thread Carl Witthoft
It was supposed to be a joke :-( On 1/24/12 4:15 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote: Like the t-shirt says, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1 " Though I wasn't familiar with this I check the repositories list and CRAN (extras) is selected in

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote: > Like the t-shirt says,  "There's no place like 127.0.0.1 " > > > > > > Though I wasn't familiar with this I check the repositories list and CRAN > (extras) is selected in my installation (R-2.14.1). By the way, when trying > Ryacas after wha

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-24 Thread Carl Witthoft
Like the t-shirt says, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1 " Though I wasn't familiar with this I check the repositories list and CRAN (extras) is selected in my installation (R-2.14.1). By the way, when trying Ryacas after what seemed to be a successful install, for a simple example of x <

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Eliano
Many Thanks David. 2012/1/22 David Winsemius [via R] > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Eliano wrote: > > > People, > > > > I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of > > my study > > i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple > > package to > > solve thi

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Eliano
Many Thanks Berend. 2012/1/22 Berend Hasselman [via R] > > On 22-01-2012, at 19:25, Eliano wrote: > > > People, > > > > I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of my > study > > i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple package to > > solve this type o

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:28 PM, David Stevens wrote: > Though I wasn't familiar with this I check the repositories list and > CRAN (extras) is selected in my installation (R-2.14.1). By the way, > when trying Ryacas after what seemed to be a successful install, for a > simple example of > > x <-

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread David Stevens
Though I wasn't familiar with this I check the repositories list and CRAN (extras) is selected in my installation (R-2.14.1). By the way, when trying Ryacas after what seemed to be a successful install, for a simple example of x <- 2 Eval(yacas(expression(x*x))) I got the following: [1] "Star

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
I would have assumed it was just an artifact of the fact Prof Stevens specified the omegahat repos in his call, though I haven't looked at the innards of install.packages to see when/how the re-route to CRAN extras happens. Michael On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12-0

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-01-22 3:56 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: CRAN suggests it's not available for windows since the build can't be automated: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe but it suggests builds are available from Prof Ripley (to whom be honor and praise for ever and ever, am

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread David Stevens
Michael That did the trick. Thanks for your help, and I agree with your praise for Prof Ripley. David On 1/22/2012 1:56 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > CRAN suggests it's not available for windows since the build can't be > automated: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/Rea

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
CRAN suggests it's not available for windows since the build can't be automated: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe but it suggests builds are available from Prof Ripley (to whom be honor and praise for ever and ever, amen!) here: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread David Stevens
I'm following this thread and got curious about Ryacas. After installing yacas and Ryacas, I was alerted to the missing XML package for Windows. I couldn't find in on a couple of mirrors so I tried http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/ and install.packages("XML", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R";)

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Eliano wrote: > People, > > I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of my study > i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple package to > solve this type of equations: > > Lets say that i need to compute beta values for th

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 22-01-2012, at 19:25, Eliano wrote: > People, > > I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of my study > i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple package to > solve this type of equations: > > Lets say that i need to compute beta values for the bet

Re: [R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Eliano wrote: People, I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of my study i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple package to solve this type of equations: Lets say that i need to compute beta values for the beta

[R] Solving Equations

2012-01-22 Thread Eliano
People, I'm researching some Bayesian statistic topics and in the midle of my study i found a very simple problem and i'm trying to find a simple package to solve this type of equations: Lets say that i need to compute beta values for the beta distribution and i now for example: E(teta)=a/(a+b)

Re: [R] Solving equations involving gamma functions

2010-09-24 Thread Berend Hasselman
Shant Ch wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to find a value of n1. I used the following code but I am getting > the > error - > > > Error in as.vector(x, mode) : > cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'any' > > > n=10 > a_g<-(1/(n*(n-1)))*((pi/3)*(n+1)+(2*sqrt(3)*(n-2))-4*n+6) > > a_

[R] Solving equations involving gamma functions

2010-09-23 Thread Shant Ch
Hi, I want to find a value of n1. I used the following code but I am getting the error - Error in as.vector(x, mode) : cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'any' n=10 a_g<-(1/(n*(n-1)))*((pi/3)*(n+1)+(2*sqrt(3)*(n-2))-4*n+6) a_s<-function(n1) { t1=(n1-1)/2; (t1*(gamma(t1)/g

Re: [R] Solving equations with optim

2008-03-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, ianfiske wrote: > > If you want to find the value of x such that f(x) = 0, then you can minimize > f^2 or abs(f) using optim. Hope this helps, For all but the (default) Nelder-Mead method you will be better off with f^2 or some other differentiable function than abs(f), sin

Re: [R] Solving equations with optim

2008-03-15 Thread Bill.Venables
+61 7 3286 7700 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of francogrex Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2008 3:24 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Solving equations with optim Hello, optim

Re: [R] Solving equations with optim

2008-03-15 Thread ianfiske
If you want to find the value of x such that f(x) = 0, then you can minimize f^2 or abs(f) using optim. Hope this helps, Ian francogrex wrote: > > Hello, optim searches for min (or max) of a function, but is it possible > to solve for a specific value? I mean, I want to find the value of a a

[R] Solving equations with optim

2008-03-15 Thread francogrex
Hello, optim searches for min (or max) of a function, but is it possible to solve for a specific value? I mean, I want to find the value of a and b that give the function value closest to ZERO (and not min or max) in the below. is it possible? thanks test=function(x){ a=x[1] b=x[2] if (all(x>0))(