"Search" on the left under "www.r-project.org" provide 5 different search engines devoted to R. The R-help archives for 4/20/2009 (+/-1 depending on your local time zone and mine) contains an interesting discussion of this issue, Subj: "Re: [R] Two or more dimensional root (Zero) finding".

Hope this helps. Spencer

Kon Knafelman wrote:
Hey guys, i have a relatively simple problem.

I need to use netwon's method to find the root of a polynomial, lets say 
x^3-2x-1

i start off with

p <- function(x) x^3-2*x-1

My method, which im sure is very amateur, is to type another function, which is 
the derivative of p, and after picking an initial value to start off with, i 
follow the steps of newton's method manually, but i dont think that is what the 
question is asking.

I've done some research on wikipedia, but i cant seem to find any code that 
will help me.

Can someone help?

Thanks a lot

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