[Rd] extending the derivs table/fools rushing in

[Ben Bolker]

 http://www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker/deriv_patch2.txt

 has this change added as well.
 However, I'm not as confident that this is the right thing
to do?  Should curly brackets even be appearing in mathematical
expressions?

  Ben

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> While you are at it could you add { to the
> table so that this works:
> 
>> # this is ok
>> f <- function(x) x*x
>> D(body(f), "x")
> x + x
> 
>> # but not g which is same as f
>> # except it has { ... } surrounding its body
>> g <- function(x) { x*x }
>> D(body(g), "x")
> Error in D(body(g), "x") : Function '`{`' is not in the derivatives table
> 
> 
> 2008/8/14 Ben Bolker <bolker at zoology.ufl.edu>:
>>  I added "plogis" to the derivative table in the
>> development version of R; the patch against yesterday's
>> R-devel src/deriv/main.c is available at
>> http://www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker/deriv_patch.txt .
>>
>>  I pretty much followed the framework of the other symbols;
>> here was my incantation
>>
>> -       } else if (CAR(expr) == PlogisSymbol) {
>> -           ans = simplify(TimesSymbol,
>> -                          PP_S(TimesSymbol,
>> -                               PP_S2(ExpSymbol,
>> -                                  PP_S2(MinusSymbol,CADR(expr))),
>> -                               PP_S(PowerSymbol,
>> -                                    PP_S(PlusSymbol,
>> -                                         Constant(1.),
>> -                                         PP_S2(ExpSymbol,
>> -                                            PP_S2(MinusSymbol,CADR(expr)))),
>> -                                    Constant(-2.))),
>> -                          PP(D(CADR(expr),var)));
>> -           UNPROTECT(8);
>>
>> It seems to work:
>>
>>> D(quote(plogis(a)),"a")
>> exp(-a) * (1 + exp(-a))^-2
>>> D(quote(plogis(a+b*x)),"x")
>> exp(-(a + b * x)) * (1 + exp(-(a + b * x)))^-2 * b
>>
>>  Any thoughts?  I'm sure there's a cleverer way to do this ...
>>
>>  Ben Bolker
>>
>>  PS I get a minor build error at the end of the compilation
>> (on Ubuntu 8.10):
>>
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `VR.ts', needed by
>> `stamp-recommended'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/local/src/R/R-devel/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/local/src/R/R-devel/src/library/Recommended'
>> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
>>
>>  ... don't know if that is important or not.
>>
>>
>>
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