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Newton-RaphsonMethod

3 messages · malika yassa, Bert Gunter, Daniel Nordlund

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HELLOplease I want to approximate the solution of the equation f(x)=x*(x-2)+log(x)=0
for that i did this program

f <- function(x){x*(x-2)+log(x)}
x <- c(1 : 2)
f(x)
h <- 1e-7
df.dx <- function(x){(f(x + h) - f(x)) / h}
df.dx(3/2);df.dx(2)
?newton <- function(f, tol = 1e-7, x0 = 3/2, N = 100){
?h = 1e-7
?i = 1; x1 = x0
?p = numeric(N)
?while (i <= N) {
?df.dx = (f(x + h) - f(x)) / h
?x1 = (x0 - (f(x0) / df.dx))
?p[1] = x1
?i = i + 1
?if (abs(x1 - x0) < tol) break
?x0 = x1
?}
?return(p[1 : (i-1)])
?}
?app <- newton(f, x0 = 3/2)

but i cann't find this approximation
please can you help me?
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Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 9:22 AM malika yassa via R-help <
r-help at r-project.org> wrote:

            

  
  
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On 2/24/2019 5:25 AM, malika yassa via R-help wrote:
As Bert pointed out there is a no homework policy on this list. But I 
will point out that when I ran your presented code, I got a lot of 
warnings.? They were not immediately informative (at least to me) 
because of a subtle programming error in your code.? Your main problem 
(but not your only one) is in the calculation of the derivative of the 
function inside the while loop. The following line is the problem:

df.dx = (f(x + h) - f(x)) / h

I will leave the solution of the problem to you.

Dan