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I wanted a function that would give the euclidean distance of a vector. Then I was happy, because I found vecnorm listed on pg 55 of V&R (3rd edn) which I had just bought today. Then I was sad, because R did not have vecnorm. Then I was happy again, because I bethought myself that I could copy the function vecnorm from splus to my code. Then I was sad again because R complained >

SAS has DUD (Does not Use Derivatives)/Secant Method for nonlinear regression, does R offer this option for nonlinear regression? I have read the helpfile for nls() and could not find such option, any suggestion? Thanks, Derek [[alternative HTML version deleted]]