Suppose I have a simple function that returns a matrix, such as: test <- function(x){ return(matrix(c(x,x^2,x^3,x^4),2,2)) }
so that test returns: [ x x^3 ] [ x^2 x^4 ] Is it possible for me to get the derivative of an expression such as: c(1,0) %*% test() %*% c(0,1) The vectors are used just to "index" the matrix. I don't want a value, but the expression to work with (in that case, the expected expression would be 3*x^2)... Tried functions D and deriv in many ways, but no success. I will be grateful if anyone can help. ______________________________________________ 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