[Rd] Optimisation methods

[Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au]

I don't want to re-invent the wheel, and I'm trying to code up something
that does a Nelder-Mead simplex method to minimise a non-linear objective
function.  (I'm porting something I originally wrote in matlab, using the 
optimisation toolbox funciton fmins).

Is there already something available to do this included in R?
Do people have suggestions on the best way to do this?

Thanks,
Robert.
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Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia
Currently on Research leave (returning to Australia, end of January 2001)
contact me by email
Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au   http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/

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