grpracma function

A reorganization of the call to the pracma grad() function.

Provides a wrapper for the pracma package approximation to the gradient of a user supplied objective function userfn. UTF-8

grpracma(par, userfn, ...)

Arguments

• par: A vector of parameters to the user-supplied function fn
• userfn: A user-supplied function
• ...: Other data needed to evaluate the user function.

Details

A central difference approximation is used in this routine.

Returns

grpracma returns an approximation to the gradient of the function userfn

Examples

cat("Example of use of grpracma\n")
require(numDeriv)
myfn<-function(xx, shift=100){
    ii<-1:length(xx)
    result<-shift+sum(xx^ii)
}
xx<-c(1,2,3,4)
ii<-1:length(xx)
print(xx)
gn<-grpracma(xx,myfn, shift=0)
print(gn)
ga<-ii*xx^(ii-1)
cat("compare to\n")
print(ga)