[R] box-constrained

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 12:49:43 CET 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Gustave Lefou <gustave5000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have another question.
>
>  I have seen there is a function called "constrOptim" in R.
>
>  Is it better than "optim", for example to optimize a function f of two
>  parameters belonging to [0,1] and [0,Infinity] ? Do the methods
>  supplied like Nelder-Mead are better than those of optim ?

Could you please give us a concrete example of what you are trying to optimize?

Paul



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