similar to: constrOptim( ): conflict between help page and code

I am trying to call a precompiled C function that uses a struct as one of it's arguments. I could write a wrapper function in C, but I was hoping there is some way to pack fields into an array of type raw that could be passed directly to the function. Here is some more detail. The C struct is simple, but has mixed types: struct STRUCT1 { long type; long nx; double

I ran into a problem with titles on graphs. I wanted a graph with multiple subplots, with each having a title that involved both a Greek letter and an identifier for each graph. Below is a simplified version of code to do this. The graph appears fine, with the first graph having "i=1" in the title, and the second graph having "i=2" in the title. However, when I resize the

I have developed an R package that works under Win32, but when I attempt to build it on Win64, I get ERROR: loading failed for 'x64' More precisely, I developed and tested the package under Win32 and it works. But when I move to a 64 bit Windows 7 (Home Premium) system, and attempt to build both 32 bit and 64 bit packages, the 32 bit package seems to build, but the 64 bit build

Hi, I think that there something wrong with the 'constrOptim' max/minimization function because she doesn?t send extra arguments to 'optim' call. Fact: When I use optim in a f(x,theta)-like function, everything goes ok. But using constrOptim with the same function leads to error... Proof: Make a small change in the 'Rosenbrock Banana function' (taken from the Examples

I have a function myFunction(beta,x) where beta is a vector of coefficients and x is a data frame (think of it as a matrix). I want to optimize the function myFunction() by ONLY changing beta, i.e. x stays constant, with 4 constraints. I have the following code (with a separate source file for the function): rm(list=ls()) source('mySourceFile')

Dear List, I am using constrOptim to solve the following fr1 <- function(x) { b0 <- x[1] b1 <- x[2] ((1/(1+exp(-b0+b1))+(1/(1+exp(-b0)))+(1/(1+exp(-b0-b1)))))/3 } As you can see, my objective function is ((1/(1+exp(-b0+b1))+(1/(1+exp(-b0)))+(1/(1+exp(-b0-b1)))))/3 and I would like to solve for both b0 and b1. If I were to use optim then I would derive the gradient of the

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to minimize a function using constrOptim with the simulated annealing method SANN. If I understand constrOptim well, it basically passes most of its arguments to optim while somehow enforcing the constraints. My problem is, that since SANN does not need gradients, when using optim with SANN, the gr argument of optim is used to specify a function to create the next

Dear List, I have the code below, where I am using the constrained optimisation package, 'constrOptim.nl' to find the values of two values, b0 and b1. I have no problems when I enter further variable information DIRECTLY into the functions, fn, and heq. In this instance I require fn to have -0.0075 appended to it, and in the case of heq, h[1] has -0.2. library(alabama)

Dear R wizards: I am playing (and struggling) with the example in the constrOptim function. simple example. let's say I want to constrain my variables to be within -1 and 1. I believe I want a whole lot of constraints where ci is -1 and ui is either -1 or 1. That is, I have 2*N constraints. Should the following work? N=10 x= rep(1:N) ci= rep(-1, 2*N) ui= c(rep(1, N), rep(-1, N))

Hello, I'm trying to run constrOptim. It returns to me an error about the fact that constraints arguments (ui and ci) are non compatibles: > optout= constrOptim(startparams, f=ImpulseSS, grad=grImpulse, ui=UI, ci=CI, data=gexp[k,], t=t) Error in ui %*% theta : non-conformable arguments I would like to point out that I can calculate that product in the command line: > UI %*%

Dear all, There appears to be a bug in how constrOptim handles ... arguments that are suppose to be passed to optim, according to the documentation. This means you can't get the hessian to be returned, for example (so this is a real problem, and not just a question of mistaken documentation). Looking at the code, it appears that a call to the user-defined f includes the ..., when the ...

How can I use a function with some additional input parameters in constrOptim? For example, something like fr <- function(x,a) { ## Rosenbrock Banana function x1 <- x[1] x2 <- x[2] a * (x2 - x1 * x1)^2 + (1 - x1)^2 } where the optimum is to be found w.r.t. x. Calling optim(c(-1.2,1), fr, NULL, a=100) works as expected, but I fail to provide the a=100 in the constrained case:

Hi, I'm having trouble using the constrOptim function to generate the 9-component vector argmin of the function ELfsds: ELfsds <- function(pvechat){ LG=0 for(i in 1:9){ LG=LG+log(pvechat[i]) } return(-LG) } with accompanying gradient function: gradfunc <- function(thetavec){ g=1/(9*thetavec) return(g) } The constraints on the optimization problem are: 1 - components of

Hello, I got a question with the R function constrOptim. >From the R help, it says that the return values of "constrOptim" are the same as "optim". For the return value "convergence" of the function "optim", the values should be 0, 1, 10, 51 and 52. See http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/stats/html/optim.html When I use constrOptim, I get

Hello at all, working with a dataset I try to optimize a non-linear function with constraint. test<-read.csv2("C:/Users/Herb/Desktop/Opti/NORM.csv") fkt<- function(x){ a<-c(0) s<-c(0) #Minimizing square error for(j in 1:107){ s<-(test[j,2] - (x[1] * test[j,3]) - (x[2] * test[j,4]) - (x[3]*test[j,5]) - (x[4]*test[j,6]) - (x[5]*test[j,7]))^2 a<- a+s} a<-as.double(a)

Hi everybody, please, could you give me help ? I scanned the help archives and didn't found hints... I want to solve a large sparse linear system subjected to an inequality constrains (all solutions positive) and an equality constrain (all solutions sum to 1), thus I tried to fool constrOptim using: x[1] + 0 + ... + 0 >= 0 ... 0 + 0 + ... + x[n] >= 0 x[1] + x[2] + ... +

Hi, I apologize for the long message but the problem I encountered can't be stated in a few lines. I am having some problems with the function constrOptim. My goal is to maximize the likelihood of product of K multinomials, each with four catagories under linear constraints on the parameter values. I have found that the function does not work for many data configurations. #The likelihood

I'm using the function constrOptim together with the "SANN" method and my objective function (f) has two parameters. One of the parameters needs be into (2^(-10), 2^4) range and the other into (2^(-2), 2^12) range. How can I do it using constrOptim?? Thank you André Rossi Alertas do Yahoo! Mail em seu celular. Saiba mais em http://br.mobile.yahoo.com/mailalertas/

Hi, Is there any way to get the hessian matrix from the "constrOptim" function without supplying gradient function? Thanks. --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Trying to use constrOptim to minimize the sum of squared deviations. I put the objective function in as: sum((x %*% Y - Z)^2) so i'm trying to get values for x to minimize the sum of the squared deviations between the product of x and Y and Z. Anyways i have no problem using this when x is a 3x1 test variable. it works great with the constraints and everything. when i actually use it on