Re: [R] Calling Optim() from C

2007-03-08 Thread Ingmar Visser
Section 6.8 of the writing R extensions manual mentions this: 6.8 Optimization The C code underlying optim can be accessed directly. The user needs to supply a function to compute the function to be minimized, of the type typedef double optimfn(int n, double *par, void *ex); And also vmmin() an

[R] Calling Optim() from C

2007-03-07 Thread Mervyn G Marasinghe
Hello: I am sure this question was dealt with several years ago. Is the function vmmin() available from Rmath Standalone? If not is it possible to call optim() or nlm() from Rmath in C. Thank you. Mervyn __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list