On 01 Sep 2016, at 05:34 , Michael Hannon <jmhannon.ucdavis at gmail.com> wrote: Greetings. A subset of a problem that the group I work with turns out to be an optimization problem, in the sense of linear programming. We've looked at several approaches to this but haven't found one that seems to be the right fit. I'm looking for some guidance in finding an R package that does what we want in an acceptable time.
Possibly a completely useless piece of advice, but have you checked the CRAN Task View: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html#MathematicalProgrammingSolvers ?
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