[R] Integrate functions with loops

[A.Brennan]

Hi

i am having a problem with the 'integrate' function
the function i want to integrate has the form
sum(vector^x)

i have defined the function with a for loop first - 
integrandtotest <- function(x)
    {a<-rep(0,len=2)
    for (i in 1:2)
        {a[i]<-t[i]^x}
        sum(a)
        }

the results gives errors
###########
Error in integrate(integrandtotest, lower = 0.1, upper = 2, 
subdivisions = 10000) : 
        evaluation of function gave a result of wrong length
In addition: 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 
#######

I then tried a vector multiplication instead of the for loop


integrandtotest3 <- function(x)
    {b<-c(t[1],t[2])
    a<-b^x
    sum(a)
        }

which gave errors
########
Error in integrate(integrandtotest3, lower = 0.1, upper = 2, 
subdivisions = 10000) : 
        evaluation of function gave a result of wrong length
In addition: Warning message:
longer object length
        is not a multiple of shorter object length in: b^x 
##########

but when i write the functio out long-hand as follows:

integrandtotest2 <- function(x)
    {t[1]^x+t[2]^x}

the integrate function works perfectly.......
###
> integralresulttotest2<-integrate(integrandtotest2, lower=0.1, 
upper=2, subdivisions=10000)
> integralresulttotest2
1.642369 with absolute error < 1.8e-14
###

Unfortunatley my real life example has the vector a with length at 
least 100.

Is the any way round these errors?

Many thanks for answers to my first question to this list
yours
Alan



Alan Brennan
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