[R] creating a grid of function values

[Douglas Bates]

I want to create a grid of function values for use in `contour' or
`persp'.  The function is the log-likelihood for the gamma.  The
sample is stored as vector of length 20 called `Survival'.

A single evaluation of the log-likelihood at, say, scale = 9 and shape
= 10 would be obtained by
 sum(dgamma(Survival, scale = 9, shape = 10, log = TRUE))
(This may work only 0.99.0, I'm not sure.)

I would like to evaluate such a function on a grid of scale and shape
values.  I don't think I can use `outer' because of the way the
evaluation of the dgamma function would vectorize.  Although I could
write the calculation for the grid in `for' loops, I have a nagging
suspicion that there is a cleaner way that I have forgotten.

Can anyone remind me of a slick way of generating the grid?

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Douglas Bates                            bates at stat.wisc.edu
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