Randall: Are you familiar with R's Search facilities? If not, don't you think you should be? If so, why don't you try using them BEFORE posting on this list.
?help ?help.search help.search("optimization") ##gives several alternatives Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:31 AM To: Powers, Randall - BLS Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Does the R "statistical language includes modules/packagesto carry out nonlinear optimization similar to the SAS NLINand NLP procedures? On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Powers, Randall - BLS wrote: > Hello R folks, > > I'm hoping the answer to the question in the subject line. > > I have in the past used SAS PROC NLIN and PROC NLP to carry out > nonlinear optimizations. I'm wondering if there is analogous ways for > doing this using R. If so, could someone please point me to some > literature that would help me examine this further? The CRAN Task Views are a good place to start any such search: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ There is one for Optimization: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html -- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.