[R] solving equations

[Roger Peng]

You could try using 'uniroot':

> f <- function(F) { F - (25*(F+0.2)/22.2/(exp(F+0.2)-1)) }
> uniroot(f, c(0, 1))$root
[1] 0.6959678

-roger
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Antonio Olinto wrote:

> Dear R-users,
> 
> I'm trying to solve the following equation:
> 
> F=25*(F+0.2)/22.2/(EXP(F+0.2)-1)
> 
> In Excel I found F=0.696176718 but I'd like to know how to use R to solve
> it. I tried, without success, to use "solve".
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Antonio Olinto
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