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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