[R] NAG (NAGFWrapper) or any optimization package recommended?

[Berend Hasselman]

On 13-03-2014, at 09:50, jpm miao <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   Is there any optimization package in R recommended for general purposes
> (constrained, unconstrained, etc)?
> 

See CRAN Task Views, Optimization. http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/

>   Has anyone used the function in NAGFWrapper package
> 
> http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/R/r-package
> 
>   Are the optimization functions therein available for free?
> 

Well not from what I could read on that webpage.
See the second paragraph in the section labelled “Installation”.
The NAG library is not free.

Berend