# plotting output from FindRoot

I am an R user and am totally new to Mathematica. I am trying to find the roots of a system of two equations over a series of paramter values and plot the results. I can do the computation but would love to know how I can work with the results without exporting them from Mathmatica.

 alphas = Table[
FindRoot[ {
S1*(1 - Exp[-R01*(1 - alpha)*Zinf1/N1 - R02*alpha*Zinf2/N2]) - Zinf1,
S2*(1 - Exp[-R02*(1 - alpha)*Zinf2/N2 - R01*alpha*Zinf1/N1]) - Zinf2} == 0,
{Zinf1, 10000},
{Zinf2, 10000}], {alpha, 0, 1, .1}]


This seems to return a list of named lists (each element being something like {Zinf1 -> 9403.65, Zinf2 -> 9800.66}). I would like to plot all the Zinf1's vs. alphas and thought something like ListPlot[] could do it, but it seems to have issues with the name:

ListPlot::optx: Unknown option Zinf1 in ListPlot[Zinf1->9403.65,Zinf1->9475.33,Zinf1-    9533.97,Zinf1->....


Any idea how to get this data into an easier (perhaps unnamed) form?

• Try the following: ListPlot[{Zinf1, Zinf2} /. alphas] This will allow for each replacement of the Zinf1's and Zinf2's one by one from the solutions. Jun 7 '13 at 16:04
• Thanks! Feel free to post that as a solution. Jun 7 '13 at 16:06

alpha1 has given you a Table of replacements. You just need to create something in which you can make these replacements. A command of the form {a,b}/.{a->1,b->2} will give you {1,2}. Similarly in this case you can pass the whole table in as follows:
ListPlot[{Zinf1, Zinf2} /. alphas]