Integration in R
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On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Naser Jamil wrote:
Hi David, x[2] is the second variable, x2. It comes from the condition 0<x1<x2<7.
No, it doesn't come from those conditions. It is being grabbed from some "x"-named object that exists in your workspace. If your limits were 7 in both dimensions, then the code should be: adaptIntegrate(f, lowerLimit = c(0, 0), upperLimit = c(7,7)) #---- $integral [1] 228.6667 (At this point I was trusting R's calculus abilities more than yours. I wasn't too trusting of mine either, and so tried seeing if Wolfram Alpha would accept this expression: integrate 2/3 (x+y) over 0< x<7, 0<y<7 ; which it did and calculating the decimal expansion of the exact fraction: > 686/3 [1] 228.6667 >
David.
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> Thanks.
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> On 8 January 2013 18:11, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> wrote:
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> On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Naser Jamil wrote:
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> Hi R-users.
>
> I'm having difficulty with an integration in R via
> the package "cubature". I'm putting it with a simple example here.
> I wish
> to integrate a function like:
> f(x1,x2)=2/3*(x1+x2) in the interval 0<x1<x2<7. To be sure I tried it
> by hand and got 114.33, but the following R code is giving me
> 102.6667.
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> library(cubature)
> f<-function(x) { 2/3 * (x[1] + x[2] ) }
> adaptIntegrate(f, lowerLimit = c(0, 0), upperLimit = c(x[2],7))
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>
> What is x[2]? On my machine it was 0.0761, so I obviously got a
> different answer.
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> --
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA