Message-ID: <404340.86531.qm@web58706.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-03-31T06:29:28Z
From: Roslina Zakaria
Subject: solver in R
Dear R-users,
Is there any function in R that works similarly like solver in Excel. I have a set of daily rainfall data and I would like to estimate alpha and beta for the gamma function.
Here is my daily rainfall data:
[1] 0.2 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.8 1.6 0.0 1.8 1.8 0.0 2.6
[24] 33.0 19.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 6.8 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 5.4 0.0
[47] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 6.0 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
[70] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 3.8 2.2 1.2 12.2 3.0 0.0 0.0
[93] 0.0 0.0 5.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.8 1.8 1.2 1.2 1.6 3.6 0.2 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.4 16.6 0.0
[116] 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 5.4
[139] 1.6 5.8 0.4 34.2 0.0 0.4 0.4 1.4 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 2.4 24.2 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
[162] 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.4 0.0 4.4 21.2 3.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
[185] 0.0 0.8 0.8 3.6 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.8 1.6 6.6 5.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.0 1.2 2.4 6.0
[208] 2.8 7.0 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.2 0.2 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0
[231] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2 6.6 2.4 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
[254] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 2.6 0.0 0.6 4.8 0.0 0.2 3.8 17.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
[277] 43.6 2.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 8.2 14.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2
[300] 0.0
Thank you in advance for your help.
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