Hi, Is there a function, or package, in R that does numerical optimisations, such as the Newton-Raphson method? I searched through the help files and found the "optim" function, but it does seem like it has this N-R method. Cheers, Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Postgraduate PGDipSci Student Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand Homepage: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Numerical Optimization
2 messages · Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, Brian Ripley
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:
Hi, Is there a function, or package, in R that does numerical optimisations, such as the Newton-Raphson method? I searched through the help files and found the "optim" function, but it does seem like it has this N-R method.
Right, it has better ones. nlm() has a modified Newton method, though.
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