Well, I took you equation and put the following at the start: Power <- function(x,y) x^y EE <- function(x) x alp <- 2
x <- 9000000*Power(-0.2030178326474623 + 0.23024073983368956*(1 - alp) + 0.2807352820970084*(1 - alp)*(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1))) + 0.2145643524071315*(1 - alp)* Power(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)),2) + 0.11519022530097237*(1 - alp)*Power(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)),3) + 0.046127977611990736*(1 - alp)*Power(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)),4) + 0.014279410543117517*(1 - alp)* Power(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)),5) + 0.2145643524071315*(Power(1 - alp,2)*alp*(1 + EE(1)) + (1 - alp)*alp*(1 + EE(1))*(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1))) + Power(1 - alp,2)*alp*(1 + EE(2))) + 0.11519022530097237*(Power(1 - alp,2)*alp*(1 + EE(1))*(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1))) + 2*(1 - alp)*alp*(1 + EE(1))*Power(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)),2) + Power(1 - alp,2)*alp*(1 - alp*(1 + EE(1)))*(1 + EE(2))) + ..................... since there appeared to be functions "Power" and "EE", and the variable 'alp'. This evaluated as-is to: 32157617213 so what you have appears to be a legal equation that R can parse as is. There you can probably put it in a function and use one of the R routines to minimize it, It does not look like you will have any problem importing it to R; just have to make sure you have the appropriate functions defined. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Andrey Siver <andrey.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > 2010/7/23 jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com>: >> It would be nice if you could post what the data looks like that you >> want to import. R can import any text file and then you have string >> manipulation that you can do to parse it. So the basic answer is >> probably yes, but we do need to understand the format of the data to >> give a more precise answer. > > I put the target expression to minimize (with some constrains) here: > > http://analytic-products4you.com/target.txt > > Is it possible to import it as a function to minimize? > >> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >> > > We solve a problem for parameters estimation with ties. > > Thank You for the answer. > > -- > Regards, > > -Andrey > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.