Re: [R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread Greg Snow
24 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R > > Dear List, > > My student and I are looking for an optimizer for a nonlinear > optimization problem we are working on. The problem we are working on > is to try to pick a set of islands on

[R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: There is `solnp', part of the "Integer and Nonlinear Optimization in R (RINO)" project [1]. It is still in early beta, though. [1] http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rino/ I do not find it at the indicated location on: http://r-forge.r-pro

Re: [R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread Hans W Borchers
csiro.au> writes: > Dear List, > > [...] > > We are looking for a solver that can deal with this nonlinear integer > programming problem. We looked at a number of packages on the CRAN Task > View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming, however, we have not > been able to locate one that

Re: [R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 6/26/09, chris.wil...@csiro.au wrote: > We are looking for a solver that can deal with this nonlinear integer > programming problem. We looked at a number of packages on the CRAN Task > View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming, however, we have not been > able to locate one

[R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread Chris.Wilcox
Dear List, My student and I are looking for an optimizer for a nonlinear optimization problem we are working on. The problem we are working on is to try to pick a set of islands on which to eradicate rats for seabird conservation. We have about 50 islands, each of which has some subset of 17