[R] how to deal with changing weighting functions

[T.Riedle]

Hi everybody,
Does anybody have an idea how I can generate tau according to the attached formula? The point is that phi changes with k and I thought I could make it by using a for-function in R but I am not sure how to do that.

Could anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

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