rationalfun: Construction of rational functions

In rationalfun: Manipulation of Rational Functions

Construction of rational functions

Description

Construction of rational functions.

Usage

rationalfun(numer = c(0, 1), denom = c(1, 1, 1))

rfun(numer = c(0, 1), denom = c(1, 1, 1))

rationalfun.poly(numer = polynomial(c(0, 1)), denom = polynomial(c(1, 
    1, 1)))

rfun.poly(numer = polynomial(c(0, 1)), denom = polynomial(c(1, 
    1, 1)))

Arguments

numer	in rationalfun(), the coefficient vector of the numerator; in rationalfun.poly(), an object of class "polynom" in polynom package representing the numerator
denom	similar to numer, but for the denominator

Details

A rational function object could be constructed either by calling rationalfun() or by calling rationalfun.poly().

rationalfun() constructs a rational function from the coefficient vectors of the numerator and the denominator. For example, consider a rational function R(x) = P(x) / Q(x) where

P(x) = p[1] + p[2] * x + p[3] * x^2 + ... + p[k]* x^(k-1)

and

Q(x) = q[1] + q[2] * x + q[3] * x^2 + ... + q[m]* x^(m-1)

, you may call rationalfun(p[1:k], q[1:m]) to build the object.

For rationalfun.poly(), it receives two objects of class "polynomial" from the polynom package, representing the polynomials of the numerator and the denominator respectively. Use this function if you already have objects of "polynomial" class, typically by calling polynomial(), poly.calc() or poly.orth().

rfun() and rfun.poly() are aliases of rationalfun() and rationalfun.poly() in order to type fewer letters.

The value returned by rationalfun() and rationalfun.poly() is an object of class "rationalfun". You can coerce the object to a function, by calling as.function.rationalfun(), or to a character string, by calling as.character.rationalfun().

Objects of "ratioanlfun" class support basic operators including "+", "-", "*", "/" and "^". To evaluate a rational function at a given vector, use predict.rationalfun(). To compute the derivative and integral in explicit form, call deriv.rationalfun() and integral.rationalfun() respectively.

Value

An object of class "rationalfun".

See Also

polynomial, poly.calc, poly.orth

Examples

# (x + 1) / (x^2 + 2 * x + 3)
r1 <- rationalfun(c(1, 1), c(3, 2, 1))
print(r1)
# Construct from objects of 'polynomial' class
if (require(polynom)) {
    p1 <- poly.calc(c(1, 2))
    p2 <- polynomial(rep(1, 5))
    r2 <- rfun.poly(p1, p2)
    print(r2)
}

rationalfun documentation built on March 18, 2022, 6:07 p.m.