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Area between 2 curves

3 messages · sappy, R. Michael Weylandt, Keith Jewell

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Hello,

i have a question calculating the shaped area between the two curves (see
image).

http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4597813/test.png 

I try to use a Simpson-Integral but it doesn't work. "R" doesn't know the
command!
It is possible, that i need a library?

Curve 1: y
Curve 2: z

q<-abs(y-z); est<-sintegral(x,z)

Greetings

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You can't just decide a command exists and try to use it by your
arbitrarily chosen name .... did you look at the function integrate()
which does exist? It uses a smarter algorithm than Simpson's rule.

Alternatively, Simpson's rule is very easy to code with vectorization
-- you should be able to implement it yourself in just a few lines
after reading "An Introduction to R".

Michael
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:17 AM, sappy <robert.wittkopf at gmx.de> wrote:
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A quick Google suggests that sintegral is in the Bolstad2 package: 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Bolstad2/

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