[R] Differentiation

[Uwe Ligges]

Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
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> Could anyone tell me what is the command used in R to do 
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> 1.	Differentiation

See ?deriv and note that R is numerical software and only has limited 
capabilities for symbolic mathematics such as differentiation.


> 2.	Newton Raphson method (Numerical Analysis in general...)

For numerical optimization see ?optim which implements several methods.

Uwe Ligges



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> Are there any packages separately for this?
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> Thanks for your help!
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> BR, Shubha
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