[R] solving equations with several variables

2004-02-19 Thread Josh Schmidt
I am relatively new to R, but I would like to use it find the values of b1 and b2 that maximize the following equation: (sum(cos(x3+2.33474-2(atan(b1*x1+b2*x2) Any help would be greatly appreciated. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] solving equations with several variables

2004-02-19 Thread Spencer Graves
optim? Josh Schmidt wrote: I am relatively new to R, but I would like to use it find the values of b1 and b2 that maximize the following equation: (sum(cos(x3+2.33474-2(atan(b1*x1+b2*x2) Any help would be greatly appreciated. __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] solving equations with several variables

2004-02-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
Josh Schmidt wrote: I am relatively new to R, but I would like to use it find the values of b1 and b2 that maximize the following equation: (sum(cos(x3+2.33474-2(atan(b1*x1+b2*x2) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Given b1 and b2 are scalars (we are minimizing f, hence

RE: [R] solving equations with several variables

2004-02-19 Thread Josh Schmidt
I tried: f-function(b,x)-sum(cos(x1+2.33474-2*(atan(b[1]*x2+b[2]*x3 optim(c(0, 0), f, x1=x1, x2=x2, x3=x3) and got this error. Error in fn(par, ...) : unused argument(s) (x1 ...) I am trying to solve for the circular-linear regression equation in Fisher (1993). = Original Message

Re: [R] solving equations with several variables

2004-02-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
Josh Schmidt wrote: I tried: f-function(b,x)-sum(cos(x1+2.33474-2*(atan(b[1]*x2+b[2]*x3 optim(c(0, 0), f, x1=x1, x2=x2, x3=x3) Sorry, should have been: f - function(b, x1, x2, x3){ -sum(cos(x1+2.33474-2*(atan(b[1]*x2+b[2]*x3 } optim(c(0, 0), f, x1=x1, x2=x2, x3=x3) Uwe Ligges