Colleagues, I am trying to learn to use uniroot to solve a simple linear equation. I define the function, prove the function and a call to the function works. When I try to use uniroot to solve the equation I get an error message, Error in yfu n(x,10,20) : object 'x' not found.
I hope someone can tell we how I can fix the problem if(!require(rootSolve)){install.packages("rootSolve")} library(rootSolve) # Define the function yfun <- function(x,diffMean,diffSE) ((abs(diffMean)-x)/diffSE) # Prove the function and a call to the function work yfun(10,100,10) # use uniroot to find a solution to the # function in the range -100 to 100 uniroot(yfun(x,10,20),c(-100,100)) My output: > # Define the function > yfun <- function(x,diffMean,diffSE) ((abs(diffMean)-x)/diffSE) > # Prove the function and a call to the funciton works > yfun(10,100,10) [1] 9 > # use uniroot to find a solution to the > # funciton in the range -100 to 100 > uniroot(yfun(x,10,20),c(-100,100)) Error in yfun(x, 10, 20) : object 'x' not found Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.