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[Linlin Yan]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Debbie Zhang <debbie0621 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear R users,
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> Does anyone know how to write a function involving derivative?
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> i.e. I want to implementing Newton's method in R, so my function is something like
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> x<- x-y/y'
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> I am not sure how to write y' in my function. Can anyone help?
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>
>
> In addition, if I want to implementing newton's method several times, what code should I use?
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> Currently, I use the following code.
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>
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> <-1
Is this line "x <- 1"?

>> for (i in 1:20){
> + x<-x-(x^3-2*x^2+3*x-5)/(3*x^2-4*x+3)}
>> x
> [1] 1.843734
>
> However, when I typed in the following code, I would yield the same answer.
> <-1
And is this line "x <- 1", too?

>> for (i in 1:1){
> + x<-x-(x^3-2*x^2+3*x-5)/(3*x^2-4*x+3)}
>> x
> [1] 1.843734

Are you sure about this result?
What I got is like this:

> x <- 1; for (i in 1:20) { x <- x-(x^3-2*x^2+3*x-5)/(3*x^2-4*x+3); }; x
[1] 1.843734
> x <- 1; for (i in 1:1) { x <- x-(x^3-2*x^2+3*x-5)/(3*x^2-4*x+3); }; x
[1] 2.5

There are different!

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> Can anyone suggest me what the problem is?
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> Please help.
> Thanks so much.
>
> Debbie
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