[R] About Passing Arguments to Function

Edward Wijaya ewijaya at gmail.com
Fri May 23 03:14:02 CEST 2008


Hi,

Below I have a function mlogl_k,
later it's called with "nlm" .

__BEGIN__
vsamples<- c(14.7, 18.8, 14, 15.9, 9.7, 12.8)

mlogl_k <- function( k_func, x_func, theta_func, samp) {
     tot_mll <- 0
     for (comp in 1:k_func) {
       curr_mll <- (- sum(dgamma(samp, shape = x_func,
scale=theta_func, log = TRUE)))
       tot_mll <- tot_mll + curr_mll
     }

     tot_mll
}

# Calling the function above
mlogl_out <- nlm(mlogl_k, mean(vsamples), k_func =2, x_func = 1,
theta_func = 1, samp=vsamples)

__END__

I thought under NLM, I already assign
the parameter correctly.
However it gives me the following error.

Error in f(x, ...) : unused argument(s) (14.3166666666667)
Calls: nlm -> <Anonymous> -> f
Execution halted


What's wrong with my code above?

- Edward



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