[R] Is there a bisection method in R?

Peter Dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 22:15:41 CEST 2010


On 09/17/2010 09:28 PM, Gregory Gentlemen wrote:
> If uniroot is not a bisection method, then what function in R does use bisection?
> 

Why do you assume that there is one? uniroot contains a better algorithm
for finding bracketed roots.

It shouldn't be too hard to roll your own if you need one for
pedagogical purposes.

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Peter Dalgaard
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