Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011301039250.28740-100000@atlas.biostat.washington.edu>
Date: 2000-11-30T18:39:54Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Optimisation methods
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012010340220.23999-100000@solzhenitsyn.ens.gu.edu.au>
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au wrote:
> I don't want to re-invent the wheel, and I'm trying to code up something
> that does a Nelder-Mead simplex method to minimise a non-linear objective
> function. (I'm porting something I originally wrote in matlab, using the
> optimisation toolbox funciton fmins).
>
> Is there already something available to do this included in R?
Yes. help(optim).
-thomas
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
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