Re: [R] Order of methods for optimx

2017-12-31 Thread J C Nash
The results are very sensitive in some cases to configuration (tolerances, etc.) and problem. Are you using the "follow-on" option? That will definitely be order dependent. optimx is currently under review by Ravi Varadhan and I. Updating optimx proved very difficult because of interactions

[R] Order of methods for optimx

2017-12-31 Thread Marc Girondot via R-help
Dear R-er, For a non-linear optimisation, I used optim() with BFGS method but it stopped regularly before to reach a true mimimum. It was not a problem with limit of iterations, just a local minimum. I was able sometimes to reach better minimum using several rounds of optim(). Then I moved