confirm.minidet {SymbolicDeterminants}

Confirm Accuracy of Symbolic Determinant Created by anewminidet Function

Description

Compares the determinant calculated by multiplying eigenvalues of a matrix to that calculated by applying the symbolic representation created by this package

Usage

confirm.minidet(x=NULL, p, storage, verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

x

a user-defined matrix, or NULL

p

size of matrix (pxp) for which a detguide has been prepared

storage

Quoted name of directory from which to get detguide

verbose

Logical. T causes printing of function ID before and after running

Value

Determinantof x produced obtained by multiplying its eigenvalues and determinant of x obtained by applying the minidetguide defined by p

Author(s)

William R. Fairweather

Examples

confirm.minidet(x=NULL, p=5,storage=tempdir(),verbose=TRUE)