One can't tell for sure without seeing the function, but I'd guess
that you have a numerical issue. Here is an example to reflect upon:
f=function(x) (exp(x)-exp(50))*(exp(x)+exp(50))
uniroot(f,c(0,100))
$root
[1] 49.99997
$f.root
[1] -1.640646e+39
$iter
[1] 4
$estim.prec
[1] 6.103516e-05
.Machine$double.eps^0.25/2
[1] 6.103516e-05
uniroot thinks it has converged, at least in relative terms. Note
that the estimated precision is related to the machine epsilon, used
in the default value for "tol". try fiddling with the tol argument.
uniroot(f,c(0,100),tol=1/10^12)
$root
[1] 50
$f.root
[1] 1.337393e+31
$iter
[1] 4
$estim.prec
[1] 5.186962e-13
albyn
Quoting megh <megh700...@yahoo.com>:
I have a strange problem with uniroot() function. Here is the result :
uniroot(th, c(-20, 20))
$root
[1] 4.216521e-05
$f.root
[1] 16.66423
$iter
[1] 27
$estim.prec
[1] 6.103516e-05
Pls forgive for not reproducing whole code, here my question is how "f.root"
can be 16.66423? As it is finding root of a function, it must be near Zero.
Am I missing something?
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