Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-08 Thread Katharine Mullen
> > I'm wondering about experiences: > Do you know of cases where minpack.lm's nls.lm() solved a > (real) problem that nls() would have a problem with ? > In short, no. However, I looked at this question in the limited context of fitting the parameters of a linear superposition of 2 exponential

Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> "KateM" == Katharine Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:07:41 +0200 (CEST) writes: KateM> The thread you linked to regarding Levenberg-Marquardt's supposed lack of KateM> availability is from 2001; it has been possible to get KateM> to the MINPACK impleme

Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-07 Thread Katharine Mullen
The thread you linked to regarding Levenberg-Marquardt's supposed lack of availability is from 2001; it has been possible to get to the MINPACK implementation of Levenberg-Marquardt within R via the package minpack.lm (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/minpack.lm.html) since 2005.

Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-07 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:34:45PM +0200, Jose Luis Aznarte M. wrote: > Hi! I'm translating some code from Matlab to R and I found a problem. > I need to translate Matlab's function 'lsqnonlin' > (http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/matlab/toolbox/optim/lsqnonlin.html) into R, Do you want the "nls"

[R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-07 Thread Jose Luis Aznarte M.
Hi! I'm translating some code from Matlab to R and I found a problem. I need to translate Matlab's function 'lsqnonlin' (http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/matlab/toolbox/optim/lsqnonlin.html) into R, and at the beginning I thought it would be the same as R's 'optim'. But then I looked at the defi