Message-ID: <89b6b8c90903232320i61fa9672y1ca2ba9fc38a6179@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-03-24T06:20:53Z
From: Yihui Xie
Subject: newton method
In-Reply-To: <92620.18946.qm@web58702.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
I'm not sure what you meant by "a topic on newton's method"
(algorithm? demo?), but the demonstration in the package 'animation'
might help:
install.packages('animation')
par(pch = 20)
ani.options(nmax = 50)
newton.method(function(x) 5 * x^3 - 7 * x^2 - 40 *
x + 100, 7.15, c(-6.2, 7.1))
Regards,
Yihui
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Roslina Zakaria <zroslina at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi R-users,
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> Does R has a topic on newton's method?
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> Thank you for the info.
>