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...on for generating a new candidate point. In order to solve the problems above, I would like to suggest that samin does not pass the argument "ex" to genptry, which is fixed. Instead, the function generating a new candidate point should be given as an new pointer-to-function argument, say new_candidate, of function samin. NULL value would mean "use the default". When called from R, a (pointer to) function similar to genptry would be given as new_candidate argument. Then, samin would call the function *new_candidate and pass "ex" to it. Since "new_candidate" and &q...