On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, bilelsan <sanbi...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a big deal concerning the development of a Taylor expansion. > > require(Matrix) > e1 <- as.vector(1:5) > e2 <- as.vector(6:10) > > in order to obtain all the combinations between these two vectors following > a Taylor expansion (or more simply through a Maclaurin series) for real > numbers. > We have f(x) = f(0) + f'(0)(x-0) + f''(0)(x-0)^2/2! + … + f^(k)(0)(x-0)^k/k! > with > f(x) = e1 + e2 for Taylor expansion (r = 1) > + 1/2!*e1^2 + 1/2!*e2^2 + 1/2!*e1*e2 for Taylor expansion (r = 2) > excluding e2*e1 > + 1/3!*e1^3 + 1/3!*e1^2*e2 + 1/3!*e2^2*e1 + 1/3!*e2^3 for Taylor > expansion (r = 3) excluding e2*e1^2 and e1*e2^2 > ... > I already write the number of possible combinations as : > x <- as.vector(0) > for (r in 1:r){x[r] <- 2*(sum(choose(2*q+r-1,r))-sum(choose(q+r-1,r)))}# q: > number of lag of e1 and e2; r: order of taylor expansion > nstar <- sum(x) # N* number of total combinations > > How to write f(x) in a general framework? > Quid of this framework when e1 and e2 are completed with their lags if q > > 1? > Your help or advice would be greatly appreciated >
See the section on Taylor expansions in the Ryacas package vignette. Depending on what you want to do that may or may not be relevant. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.