R: The Exponential Integral and Variants

expint {VGAM} | R Documentation

## The Exponential Integral and Variants

### Description

Computes the exponential integral Ei(x) for real values, as well as exp(-x) * Ei(x) and E_1(x) and their derivatives (up to the 3rd derivative).

### Usage

    expint(x, deriv = 0)
    expexpint(x, deriv = 0)
    expint.E1(x, deriv = 0)

### Arguments

`x` | Numeric. Ideally a vector of positive reals.
`deriv` | Integer. Either 0, 1, 2 or 3.

### Details

The exponential integral Ei(x) function is the integral of exp(t) / t from 0 to x, for positive real x. The function E_1(x) is the integral of exp(-t) / t from x to infinity, for positive real x.

### Value

Function `expint(x, deriv = n)` returns the nth derivative of Ei(x) (up to the 3rd), function `expexpint(x, deriv = n)` returns the nth derivative of exp(-x) * Ei(x) (up to the 3rd), function `expint.E1(x, deriv = n)` returns the nth derivative of E_1(x) (up to the 3rd).

### Warning

These functions have not been tested thoroughly.

### Author(s)

T. W. Yee has simply written a small wrapper function to call the NETLIB FORTRAN code. Xiangjie Xue modified the functions to calculate derivatives. Higher derivatives can actually be calculated—please let me know if you need it.

### References

http://www.netlib.org/specfun/ei.

### See Also

`log`, `exp`. There is also a package called expint.

### Examples

     ## Not run:
    par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
    curve(expint, 0.01, 2, xlim = c(0, 2), ylim = c(-3, 5),
          las = 1, col = "orange")
    abline(v = (-3):5, h = (-4):5, lwd = 2, lty = "dotted", col = "gray")
    abline(h = 0, v = 0, lty = "dashed", col = "blue")

    curve(expexpint, 0.01, 2, xlim = c(0, 2), ylim = c(-3, 2),
          las = 1, col = "orange")
    abline(v = (-3):2, h = (-4):5, lwd = 2, lty = "dotted", col = "gray")
    abline(h = 0, v = 0, lty = "dashed", col = "blue")

    curve(expint.E1, 0.01, 2, xlim = c(0, 2), ylim = c(0, 5),
          las = 1, col = "orange")
    abline(v = (-3):2, h = (-4):5, lwd = 2, lty = "dotted", col = "gray")
    abline(h = 0, v = 0, lty = "dashed", col = "blue")

    ## End(Not run)

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