R help - Jan 2011 - extracting more information from optim in R?

Dear All,

I am in the process of translating some of my functions into C and one such
function sometimes get stuck when I applied optim. The pure R codes work fine
but the translated C codes occasionally get stuck and I like to find out why.

Is it possible to extract the parameters of function calculated in each step of
the Nelder-Simplex algorithm, the trace option only produce the value of the
objective function in each iteration? Is there a simple way to extract this
information?

Any help greatly appreciated.

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I have no experience with writing C code, but if I have such problems in R
code, I add a line to my function which prints the values to the console:
eg:
fr <- function(x) {   ## Rosenbrock Banana function
    x1 <- x[1]
    x2 <- x[2]
	cat (paste(x1, x2, "\n"))
    100 * (x2 - x1 * x1)^2 + (1 - x1)^2
}
optim(c(-1.2,1), fr)

If the same goes for C, I don't know.

Bart
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