[R] Problems with integrate

[Tolga Uzuner]

Hi,

Having a weird problem with the integrate function.

I have a function which calculates a loss density: I'd like to integrate 
it to get the distribution.

The loss density function is:

lossdensity<-function(p,Beta,R=0.4){
# the second derivative of the PDF
# p is the default probability of the pool at which we are evaluating 
the lossdensity
# Beta is the correlation with the market factor as a function of K
# R is the recovery rate
K=p
C=qnorm(p) # default threshold for the pool
A=1/Beta(K)*(C-sqrt(1-Beta(K)^2)*qnorm(K/(1-R)))
B=qnorm(K/(1-R))
alpha0=dnorm(A)*sqrt(1-Beta(K)^2)/(dnorm(B)*Beta(K)*(1-R))
alpha10=-2*dnorm(A)*(C*Beta(K)-A)/(Beta(K)*(1-Beta(K)^2))
alpha11=(1-R)*dnorm(A)*dnorm(B)*(Beta(K)-A/Beta(K)*(C*Beta(K)-A))/((1-Beta(K)^2)^1.5)
alpha20=(1-R)*dnorm(A)*dnorm(B)/sqrt(1-Beta(K)^2)
return(alpha0+(alpha10+alpha11*fd(K,Beta))*fd(K,Beta)+alpha20*fd2(K,Beta))
}

Beta needs to be passed in as a function:

Beta<-splinefun(c(.03,.06,.09,.12,.22,.6),c(.117,.248,.35,.426,.603,1),method="natural")

Now, when I try out lossdensity, it works fine:

 > lossdensity(.02,Beta,.4)
[1] 0.1444915

I defined lossdistribution as:

lossdistribution<-function(p,Beta,R=0.4){
integrate(function(x)lossdensity(x,Beta,R),0.0000000000001,p)}


But this gives a weird error:

 > lossdistribution(0.1,Beta)
Error in "[<-"(`*tmp*`, k, i, value = c(4.29850518211428, 0, 0, 0, 0,  :
        number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length


What's interesting is, if I use the area function from library(MASS), it 
works:

 > lossdistribution<-function(p,Beta,R=0.4){
+ area(function(x){lossdensity(x,Beta,R)},0.00001,p)}
 > lossdistribution(.02,Beta,.4)
[1] 0.0002177284


I could just go ahead and use that, but would like to understand why 
integrate is not working.

Thanks in advance,
Tolga