[R] Finding Infimum in R

[Boris Steipe]

Is the function linear between the discontinuities?
Can you give an example of how the function is specified?

B.



> On Apr 9, 2017, at 8:38 PM, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Burt,
>    Yes, the function is monotone increasing and points of discontinuity
> are all known.
> They are all numbers between 0 and 1.  Thanks very much!
>   Hanna
> 
> 
> 2017-04-09 16:55 GMT-04:00 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Details matter!
>> 
>> 1. Are the points of discontinuity known? This is critical.
>> 
>> 2. Can we assume monotonic increasing, as is shown?
>> 
>> 
>> -- Bert
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bert Gunter
>> 
>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> and sticking things into it."
>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:28 PM, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>  For a piecewise function F similar to the attached graph, I would like
>> to
>>> find
>>>                                        inf{x| F(x) >=0}.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried to uniroot. It does not seem to work. Any suggestions?
>>> Thank you very much!!
>>>    Hanna
>>> 
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