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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401230720560.24629-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-01-23T07:26:33Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: BVLS
In-Reply-To: <3B5823541A25D311B3B90008C7F9056410E35270@ntmsg0092.corpmail.telstra.com.au>

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Briggs, Meredith M wrote:

> Is there an R package that solves linear least squares with upper and
> lower bounds on the variables. Something like the Parker and Stark
> algorithm written in Fortran.

Probably not, but this is an easy application of optim(method="L-BFGS")
or of solve.QP() in package quadprog.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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