From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Nov 22 11:03:26 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:03:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] simplex problem (PR#2317)
In-Reply-To: <200211220533.GAA05030@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0211221101340.6181-100000@gannet.stats>

You have to use library(boot) to use functions in boot.

*Please* send things like this to R-help, when you cna be advised how to
use R packages.

library(boot)
example(simplex)

works.

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 george@lecompte.org wrote:

> Full_Name: George F. LeCompte
> Version: 1.6.1
> OS: Windows 98
> Submission from: (NULL) (208.8.162.161)
>
>
> This may be a newbie problem.  I am attempting tor unt the simplex routine from
> the boot package.  The example code doesn't find simplex.  What's wrong here?
>
> > help(simplex,package=boot)
> > # from the resulting article
> >
> >      #  This example is taken from Exercise 7.5 of Gill, Murray,
> >      #  and Wright (1991).
> >      enj <- c(200, 6000, 3000, -200)
> >      fat <- c(800, 6000, 1000, 400)
> >      vitx <- c(50, 3, 150, 100)
> >      vity <- c(10, 10, 75, 100)
> >      vitz <- c(150, 35, 75, 5)
> >      simplex(a=enj, A1=fat, b1=13800, A2=rbind(vitx, vity, vitz),
> +              b2=c(600, 300, 550), maxi=TRUE)
> Error: couldn't find function "simplex"
> >

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[Rd] simplex problem (PR#2317)
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