To Ravi Varadhan and Peter Dalgaard: Infinite thanks for your help and suggestions- they were very instructive, as i have still to learn on the appropriate use of the apply family of functions.
jlrp --- On Wed, 8/27/08, Ravi Varadhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ravi Varadhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [R] Integrate a 1-variable function with 1 parameter (Jose L. > Romero) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-help@r-project.org > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 2:42 PM > Here is one way: > > integrand <- function (t, x) { > exp(-2*t)*(2*t)^x/(10*factorial(x)) > } > > x <- 0:44 > ans <- sapply(x, function(x) integrate(integrand, > lower=0, upper=10, x=x)) > cbind(x=x, integral=unlist(ans[1,]), > abs.error=unlist(ans[2,])) > > > Ravi. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > > Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. > > Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health > > Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology > > Johns Hopkins University > > Ph: (410) 502-2619 > > Fax: (410) 614-9625 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Webpage: > http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty/Varadhan.html > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jose romero > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:24 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Integrate a 1-variable function with 1 > parameter (Jose L. > Romero) > > Hey fellas: > > I would like to integrate the following function: > > integrand <- function (x,t) { > exp(-2*t)*(2*t)^x/(10*factorial(x)) > } > > with respect to the t variable, from 0 to 10. > The variable x here works as a parameter: I would like to > integrate the said > function for each value of x in 0,1,..,44. > > I have tried Vectorize to no avail. > > Thanks in advance, > jose romero > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.