I've been finding that the "loose ends" in many of these older codes cause more trouble than it is worth in their use. When I encounter them, I've attempted to re-program the algorithm in R. A lot of the Fortran code is because of the software structure the author used and nothing to do with the job to be done.
If you can prepare an R function for this, you'd be doing the R community a favour. You may also find that a judicious combination of optimize() and grid search gets the task done satisfactorily. Best, JN > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:43:03 +0530 > From: Mohit Dayal <ken.sen...@gmail.com> > To: R-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] AS Algorithms > > I would like to use one of the AS Algorithms that used to be published in > the journal Applied Statistics of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C). > FORTRAN code based on these are available on the Statlib website at > > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/modules.php?op=modload&name=PostWrap&file=index&page=apstat/ [snip] > > *BTW I am looking at AS 133 : Finding the global maximum or minimum of a > function of 1 variable. > * > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
