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What does it mean by "initial value not available"?

On 09/09/2007 7:01 AM, Yuchen Luo wrote:
I haven't tried your code, but there's one obvious error:
...
The function optimizes over the elements of the first parameter.  You've 
got two other parameters there, and I think you're trying to optimize 
over them as well.  Put them all into one vector.

The documentation for constrOptim doesn't make this as clear as it 
should; I'll clarify (by copying the docs from ?optim).

Duncan Murdoch