Hi all,
I am writing a simple function to implement regularfalsi (secant) method.
###################################################
regulafalsi=function(f,x0,x1){
x=c()
x[1]=x1
i=1
while ( f(x[i])!=0 ) {
i=i+1
if (i==2) {
x[2]=x[1]-f(x[1])*(x[1]-x0)/(f(x[1])-f(x0))
} else {
x[i]=x[i-1]-f(x[i-1])*(x[i-1]-x[i-2])/(f(x[i-1])-f(x[i-2]))
}
}
x[i]
}
###################################################
These work fine,
regulafalsi(function(x) x^(1/2)+3*log(x)-5,1,10)
regulafalsi(function(x) x^(1/2)+3*log(x)-5,10,1)
For all x>0, the function is strictly increasing.
Then
regulafalsi(function(x) x^(1/2)+3*log(x)-5,1,100)
Error in while (f(x[i]) != 0) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
In addition: Warning message:
In log(x) : NaNs produced
I dont know what happened there, is there a way to find the value for
f(x[i])
that R can't determine TRUE/FALSE?
Thanks!
casper
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