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2008 Apr 04
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suggested minor patch for optim.R
optim ignores misspelled control parameters, so that trying to set (e.g.) "maxint=1000" in the control argument silently does nothing. The patch below (watch out for line breaks! also posted at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_patch.R , and http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_new.R) adds three lines to optim.R that issue a warning if any names of elements of "control" fail to match the internal object that contains the defaults. Here is code that shows the behavior: set.seed(1001) x <- rnorm(10) y <- rnorm(10,mean=1+2*x,sd=0.2) ssqfun <- function(p)...