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Graph f(x) = 1/x

5 messages · AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, Achim Zeileis, Ivan Calandra +1 more

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Dear All: good morning

I am trying to graph the function y=f(x)=1/x over the interval (-5,5). But
I am getting an error message. Please see below.

I am getting the error message: *Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel,
log) : *
*  'x' and 'y' lengths differ*


x

x <- seq(-5, 5, 0.01)
y < 1/x

plot(x,y, type='l', xlim=c(-5, 5), ylim=c(-5, 5), xlab = "x", ylab = "f(x)
= 1/x", lwd = 2, col ="red")

abline(h=0, lty=2, col = "blue")
abline(v=0, lty=2, col = "blue")
axis(1)
axis(2)
title(main="The Graph of f(x) = 1/x")


any help will be highly appreciated.


with thanks
abou
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AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD
Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Southern Maine
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa wrote:

            
You have "y < 1/x" rather than "y <- 1/x"! So "y" is not assigned and 
presumably you have some old "y" variable in your global environment that 
is used and does not match the length of "x".
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Dear Zeileis:

Thank you very much

abou

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at>
wrote:

  
    
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It's always good to start a new session when you don't understand what's 
wrong, because sometimes your code is correct, but you use old data 
without knowing it :)

Ivan

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On 19/09/2017 10:19, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa wrote:
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Hello,

I believe that the easiest way is

curve(1/x, -5, 5)

Also, you're missing a '-' in y < 1/x, it should be y <- 1/x

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas



Citando AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa <abouelmakarim1962 at gmail.com>: