### Name: uniroot ### Title: One Dimensional Root (Zero) Finding ### Aliases: uniroot ### Keywords: optimize ### ** Examples require(utils) # for str f <- function (x,a) x - a str(xmin <- uniroot(f, c(0, 1), tol = 0.0001, a = 1/3)) str(uniroot(function(x) x*(x^2-1) + .5, lower = -2, upper = 2, tol = 0.0001), dig = 10) str(uniroot(function(x) x*(x^2-1) + .5, lower = -2, upper = 2, tol = 1e-10 ), dig = 10) ## Find the smallest value x for which exp(x) > 0 (numerically): r <- uniroot(function(x) 1e80*exp(x)-1e-300, c(-1000,0), tol = 1e-15) str(r, digits= 15) ##> around -745, depending on the platform. exp(r$root) # = 0, but not for r$root * 0.999... minexp <- r$root * (1 - 10*.Machine$double.eps) exp(minexp) # typically denormalized