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Message-ID: <C4A33886378A9447B5C05B3010868146FFA415@UM-EMAIL10.um.umsystem.edu>
Date: 2005-11-16T17:42:40Z
From: Zhu, Chao (UMC-Student)
Subject: Newton-Raphson

Dear all,
 
I want to solve a score function by using Newton-Raphson algorithm. Is there such a fucntion in R? I know there's one called optim, but it seems only doing minimizing or maximizing. 
 
Thanks,
 
Jimmy