Don't sorry about n it is only necessary for using a and b which are the upper and lower limit of integration and n is the # of sub-intervals. You can ignore all else and use x and y. I will fix the documentation soon. I did a rather bad job on that help document. kindest regards,
Stephen Sefick On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, suse <meyfa...@uni-potsdam.de> wrote: > > Thank you, seems to be the right thing for me. But what is this "n" for? The > number of iteration steps as mentioned on other pages for the simpson rule? > "number of divisions" as said on the help page I don't understand. ("a" and > "b" can be ignored, if I got it right?!). Thanks again! > > > stephen sefick wrote: >> >> simp() in the StreamMetabolism package may do the trick. I have used >> this on time series of chemical constituent masses. >> hth, >> >> Stephen Sefick >> > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Calculate-area-under-a-curve-tp2275283p2275512.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Stephen Sefick ____________________________________ | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___________________________________| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___________________________________| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.