The stats package has the optimize function that could be used for this.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, John Sorkin <[email protected]>wrote: > I am looking for a package that will allow me to choose R (a real number) > that minimizes the correlation of y and x^R, i.e. > find R such that corr(y,x^R) is minimized. Any suggestions for packages I > might look at would be helpful. > Thanks, > John > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:23}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

