To find out what those parameters are, I would suggest "May the Source
be with you".
What's I like to point out though, is that in R, sometimes it is the
loop construct which is slow; and also the slower part may not be where
you think it is. I would suggest looking into (1) moving the whole loop
into C, (2) replace explicit loops with mapply/tapply/sapply , (3) run
Rprof() to learn which part of your code is the slowest - it might not
be where you think it is.
Good luck.
Hin-Tak Leung
Tamas K Papp wrote:> Hi,
>
> To make a calculation (an innermost loop) that uses optimize faster, I
> think I should write things in C. Is it possible to call fmin, which
> is called by optimize, from C? It is not listed in Writing R
> extensions, but I found
>
> double Brent_fmin(double ax, double bx, double (*f)(double, void *),
> void *info, double tol);
>
> in Applic.h. Is this the function I am looking for?
>
> My guess is that ax and bx are the endpoints, f is the function, but
> what is it's second argument (void *)? What is *info?
>
> Or is it some other function altogether?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tamas
>
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