Dear all: I have a question about how to get the optimal estimate of coefficients using the penalized quantile regression (LASSO penalty in quantile regression defined in Koenker 2005). In R, I found both rq(y ~ x, method="lasso",lambda = 30) and rq.fit.lasso(x, y, tau = 0.5, lambda = 1, beta = .9995, eps = 1e-06) can give the estimates. But, I didn't find a way using either of these command to get the optimal estimates. Is there any way to specify the optimal lambda (the value of penalty parameter) and then get the optimal estimates? Thanks a lot. Any comment will be appreciated. sophie [[alternative HTML version deleted]]