[Rd] Optimisation methods

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au wrote:

> 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?

optim(method="Nelder-Mead")

Now how did this not come up in a search: perhaps because of the way you
spell optimization?  I have

> help.search("optimisation")
No help files found with name or title matching `optimisation'
> help.search("optimization")
Help files with name or title matching `optimization':

partition(multiv)          Partitioning by Iterative Optimization 
lmeScale(nlme)             Scale for lme Optimization
portfolio.optim(tseries)   Portfolio Optimization
optim(base)                General-purpose Optimization
optimize(base)             One Dimensional Optimization

which shows we probably need to find a way to check variant spellings.

(BTW: just in case anyone tells me the British spell with an `ise', the
Oxford English Dictionary does not.)

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