?fdHess Check out the function fdHess in the library(nlme).
It numerically calculates the gradient and Hessian of a given function. Regards Wayne -----Original Message----- From: Fred J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 March 2004 03:20 To: r help Subject: [R] rate of change Hello I am wondering, how do I find if R has a certain funciton to do a given task. do I just type help.search("rate"). I am just trying to find a function to calculate the rate of change for a variable. I could come up with one if there isn't any allready builtin. thanks ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html KSS Ltd Seventh Floor St James's Buildings 79 Oxford Street Manchester M1 6SS England Company Registration Number 2800886 Tel: +44 (0) 161 228 0040 Fax: +44 (0) 161 236 6305 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kssg.com The information in this Internet email is confidential and m...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html