[R] Solving equation

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2010-05-01 7:13, Berend Hasselman wrote:
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> David Winsemius wrote:
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>> On May 1, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
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>>> Shant Ch wrote:
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>>>> I want to solve: x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1=0 for x. I used
>>>> the
>>>> following code,
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>>>> uniroot(function(x) x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1, lower = -2,
>>>> upper =
>>>> 2, tol = 0.001 )
>>>>
>>>> While using this I am getting the following error. Can anyone
>>>> please help
>>>> me out.
>>>> Error in uniroot(function(x) x * (3^x) * log(4) - x * log(4/3) -
>>>> (3^x) +
>>>> :   f() values at end points not of opposite sign.
>>>>
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>>> Try f(-2) and f(2) and you'll see the cause of the error message.
>>> Define your equation as a function
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>>> f<- function(x) return(x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1)
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>>> and do
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>>> curve(f,from=-2,to=2)
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>>> curve(f,from=-.1,to=.1)
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>>> and draw your conclusions.
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>> Try optimize instead.
>> ...
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> You could also try package nleqslv (intended for solving equations).
> But also try f(0)

Right. And a little calculus shows that that's the only minimum.

  -Peter

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> Berend