R help - Mar 2014 - NAG (NAGFWrapper) or any optimization package recommended?

Hi,

   Is there any optimization package in R recommended for general purposes
(constrained, unconstrained, etc)?

   Has anyone used the function in NAGFWrapper package

http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/R/r-package

   Are the optimization functions therein available for free?

   Thanks,

Miao

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On 13-03-2014, at 09:50, jpm miao <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Is there any optimization package in R recommended for general purposes
> (constrained, unconstrained, etc)?
> 
See CRAN Task Views, Optimization. http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
>   Has anyone used the function in NAGFWrapper package
> 
> http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/R/r-package
> 
>   Are the optimization functions therein available for free?
> 
Well not from what I could read on that webpage.
See the second paragraph in the section labelled ?Installation?.
The NAG library is not free.

Berend