tiny typo in optim/N-M documentation (PR#1109)
In the optim() documentation, the control parameter "maxit" says "There is no other stopping criteria." That should be "are", or "criterion" ... While I'm at it -- poking at the code a little bit, it looks as if the initial simplex is set from the initial point by displacing each parameter value by max(0.1,0.1*pmax(fabs(Bvec))), where Bvec is the initial parameter set. It would be nice to have a bit more external control of this procedure. Is anyone interested in hacking this? If I did it myself would anyone be interested in the results? Or does fussing with the Nelder-Mead simplex seem silly because anyone who is really serious about optimization will being using another method anyway? Ben Bolker --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu arch = i686 os = linux-gnu system = i686, linux-gnu status = major = 1 minor = 3.1 year = 2001 month = 08 day = 31 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:LG3d, package:ts, package:nls, package:ellipse, package:mleprof, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
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