[R] Using a zero-finding routine in R

[Kaspar Pflugshaupt]

On 28.9.2001 14:20 Uhr, Carlos Alberto Kamienski wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I'd like to use a routine in R to find the zero of a function (like
> Newton-Raphson, Broyden, etc.)
> In the  manual, I found a reference to Newton-Raphson method in the
> "qr" function, but I simply wonder how I could use it to implement such a
> method.

Have a look at uniroot(), or optim() for more complex tasks.

Cheers

Kaspar

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