[R] Can't get function to run iteratively

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

R is a vectorized language, look at this:

fd <- function(b, gn, ..., eps=sqrt(.Machine$double.neg.eps)){
    n <- length(b)
    g0 <- gn(b, ...)
    out <- numeric(n)
    b. <-  b + eps*max(abs(b), 1)
    c(gn(b., ...) - g0) / (b. - b)
}
##############
test <- function(x) x*x
fd(seq(0.1, 0.5, 0.1), test)
2*seq(0.1, 0.5, 0.1)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Catholic University of Leuven

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Uzuner, Tolga" <tolga.uzuner at csfb.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:08 PM
Subject: [R] Can't get function to run iteratively


> Trying to do something very simple...
>
>> numerical.grad
> function(func,x, eps=1e-12) {
> #  very simple (crude) numerical approximation
>  f <-func(x)
>  df <-1:length(x)
>  for (i in 1:length(x)) {
>    dx <- x
>    dx[i] <- dx[i] +eps
>    df[i] <- (func(dx)-f)/eps
>   }
> df
> }
>> test<-function(x){x^2}
>> y<-seq(0.1,0.5,0.1)
>> numerical.grad(test,y)
> [1] 0.1999997 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
> Warning messages:
> 1: number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement 
> length
> 2: number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement 
> length
> 3: number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement 
> length
> 4: number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement 
> length
> 5: number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement 
> length
>>
>
>
> Any thoughts why this doesn't seem to be working ?
>
>
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