Re: [Rd] Version of L-BFGS-B used in optim etc

2013-10-10 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
things don't work smoothly in my codes. There are upgrades to optimx on R-forge that will not likely move to CRAN for a few months until TN is completed and added etc. Best, JN On 13-10-10 06:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:46:40 +1000 From

[Rd] Version of L-BFGS-B used in optim etc

2013-10-09 Thread David Duffy
Hi. I just noticed the paper by Morales and Nocedal Remark on "Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B: Fortran Subroutines for Large-Scale Bound Constrained Optimization". TOMS 2011; 38(1): 7 http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~morales/PSfiles/acm-remark.pdf which describes a couple of improvements (speed and