Minimize function of several variables?

Thank you all.

Nlm will be fine.

Yves

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
To: Yves Gauvreau <cyg at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Minimize function of several variables?

"Yves Gauvreau" <cyg at sympatico.ca> writes:

Is there something like the Matlab function FMINS in any R packages? =
Here is the help file of fmins in case something similar exist under R =
with a different name.

There is the nlm function.  It uses a quasi-Newton optimization method
rather than the Nelder-Mead simplex search.  Was your question just
whether there is optimization code available or whether there is
optimization code that implements the Nelder-Mead method?

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