[R] help with time data - R weird behaviour across machines

Hello list, I was hoping I could get some help on something which is really giving me a headache. I am using R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) (Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)) An object which is supposed to have times has a few elements listed as not times but NA's > ls() [1] "todelet

Re: [R] issue with L-BFGS-B in optim (optim just hangs)

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[R] issue with L-BFGS-B in optim (optim just hangs)

Dear R-Help List, I am using optim, with method=L-BFGS-B, to maximize a likelihood inside a large simulation exercise. This runs fine for most simulated data sets, but for some reason, about 1 out of 100 times, optim will just hang. Using a dumb approach to the problem (i.e. printing the parame