[R] help

David Scott d.scott at auckland.ac.nz
Thu Nov 15 22:53:10 CET 2007


On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Nadine Mugusa wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  Can someone help me with root bisection algorithm?
>  Nadine
>

Well you really should read the posting guide because this is not a very 
informative enquiry. However if what you really want to do is find the 
root of an equation you should use the uniroot function which is far more 
efficient than bisection. See

?uniroot

David Scott




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