yes: From "?optim", I get the following:
optim(par, fn, gr = NULL,
method = c("Nelder-Mead", "BFGS", "CG", "L-BFGS-B", "SANN"),
lower = -Inf, upper = Inf,
control = list(), hessian = FALSE, ...)
By "fn", I meant the function you supply for that argument.
spencer
I just did a Google search for "lapack error codes" and got several
hits. However, I don't know if a translation of "error code 17" would
really help you.
Have you tried "fn" as a stand-alone function? If yes, have you
tried including a "cat" or "print" statement in it, so it prints the
Does any of you know where I can find an explanation of lapack errors codes?
I get error code 17 when using optim().
Is there a way to handle errors in R such that depending on the type of
error I can decide what to do next?
Thanks,
Haky
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