Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Actually in thinking about this its pretty easy to do it without Ryacas > too: > > Df <- f > body(Df) <- deriv(body(f), "x") > Df > This is weird.
f <- function(x) { x^2 + 2*x+1 } Df <- f body(Df) <- deriv(body(f), "x") # error Also: f <- function(x) x^2 + 2 * x + 1 Df <- f body(Df) <- deriv(body(f), "x") # ok D2f <- f body(D2f) <- deriv(body(Df), "x") # error Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.