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Dear R users I have tried to install the optimx but met problems. I have gone to the website you suggested: https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=395 and tried to install it with the following method: install.packages("optimx", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") I have received the following information: package 'numDeriv' successfully unpacked and MD5

Dear R-help forum members, Suppose I have a data-frame having two variables and single data for each of them, as described below. variable_1           variable_2         10                          20 I have written a function, say, 'fun' which uses input 10 and 20 and gives me desired result. fun = function(X, Y)          {          X + Y              #( I am just giving an example of

Hello all, I posted a question some days ago without getting any answers, perhaps, as one of you kindly pointed out, because the question was not clearly stated. Let me reformulate it: In a frame, a column named C2 represents a numeric variable (checked with is.numeric(C2)). Some rows in the frame have an undefined value for C2, represented in the table by a ? sign. The remaining rows have

Hello, I have a problem with the values for one column in a table. The variable represented in this column is numeric (I get TRUE when I ask is.numeric(x)). However, the values are listed ordinally and with row numbers as values, not with the ones that appear in the table. Some rows have an undefined value for this column, which appears as ? in the table (this is not an error). I wonder whether

Dear R users When I use OPTIM with BFGS, I've got a significant result without an error message. However, when I use OPTIMX with BFGS( or spg), I've got the following an error message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > optimx(par=theta0, fn=obj.fy, gr=gr.fy, method="BFGS", >

Dear R users I am trying to use OPTIMX(OPTIM) for nonlinear optimization. There is no error in my code but the results are so weird (see below). When I ran via OPTIM, the results are that Initial values are that theta0 = 0.6 1.6 0.6 1.6 0.7. (In fact true vales are 0.5,1.0,0.8,1.2, 0.6.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >

This is mainly a reminder to others developing R packages to be careful not to supply control list items that are not used by the called package. Optimx is a wrapper package that aims to provide a common syntax to a number of existing optimization packages. Recently in extending optimx package I inadvertently introduced a new control for optimx which is NOT in any of the wrapped optimization

Dear R-er, For a non-linear optimisation, I used optim() with BFGS method but it stopped regularly before to reach a true mimimum. It was not a problem with limit of iterations, just a local minimum. I was able sometimes to reach better minimum using several rounds of optim(). Then I moved to optimx() to do the different optim rounds automatically using "Nelder-Mead" and

Hello, I used optim to find the MLE estimates of some parameters. See the code below. It works for data1(x). but It did not work for data2 and the error says" L-BFGS-B needs finite values of 'fn' ". data2: c(x, 32) that is, if I added the number 32 at the end of data1. The error appears "non-finite function value" etc. Any comments or suggestions? Thanks!

I'll not copy all the previous material on this thread to avoid overload. The summary is that all the methods Spencer has tried have some issues. The bad news: This is not uncommon with optimization methods, in part because the problems are "hard", in part because getting them implemented and linked to an interfacing approach like R is very tedious and prone to omissions and

Prof Nash, Prof Galanos Is it possible to use a generic code stub in front of packages that use optimx to improve optimx use or curtail it according to the requirements? Best Regards Amit +91 7899381263 ________________________________________________________________________ Please request Skype as available 5th Year FPM (Ph.D.) in Finance and Accounting Area Indian Institute

In re-factoring my optimx package, I'm finding that the pdf output has some lines that are outside the margins (and there are warnings in R CMD check optimx). Clearly I can fix this by editing the tex file that is generated, but the build infrastructure would still get things wrong in automatic processing. So that gives rise to 3 questions: 1) How do I adjust the DESCRIPTION file to avoid too

Hello, I have two questions: 1. How can I get black and white graphics using the pdf() device? I have tried pdf(Name.pdf, bg="white", fg"black"), but I still get full-color graphics. 2. When using lattice, how do I change the title for each panel? By default it uses the categories of the grouping factor. I would like to modify the labels in the graphic without changing

I have not included the previous postings because they came out very strangely on my mail reader. However, the question concerned the choice of minimizer for the zeroinfl() function, which apparently allows any of the current 6 methods of optim() for this purpose. The original poster wanted to use Newton-Raphson. Newton-Raphson (or just Newton for simplicity) is commonly thought to be the

Dear all, this is my first time, and just begin to use R. But I've a question about optimization using optimx library. It could sound stupid by I'm a bit affraid with the problem, because anything I try, anything Error. The procedure was: optimx(par="10,71,1",fn=(Prey*Provisioning)/Risk, control=list("maximize)) well the problem lies in the initial value parameters, again

Hi I have a code that calculate maximisation using optimx and it is working just fine. I want to extend the code to run several colomns of R_j where j runs from 1 to 200. If I am to run the code in its current state, it means I will have to run it 200 times manually. May you help me adjust it to accomodate several rows of R_j and print the 200 results. ***Please do not get intimidated by the

I was preparing a fix for a minor glitch in my optimx package and R CMD check gave an error that the title was not in title case. It is A Replacement and Extension of the optim() Function R CMD check suggests the incorrect form A Replacement and Extension of the Optim() Function 'Writing R Extensions' suggests single quotes, i.e., A Replacement and Extension of the 'optim()'

Good afternoon everybody, I'm quite new in functions optimization on R and, whereas I've read lot's of function descriptions, I'm not sure of the correct settings for function like "optimx" and "nlminb". I'd like to minimize my parameters and the loglikelihood result of the function. My parameters are a mean distance of dispersion and a proportion of

Dear All, I am running a simulation to obtain coverage probability of Wald type confidence intervals for my parameter d in a function of two parameters (mu,d). I am optimizing it using "optim" method "L-BFGS-B" to obtain MLE. As, I want to invert the Hessian matrix to get Standard errors of the two parameter estimates. However, my Hessian matrix at times becomes

Hi, I need to write a function that would look something like this: S <- function(b=betas){ expression(b[1] * f(b[2] * x * f(b[3] * x * f(...b[n-1] * x * f(b[n] * x)))...) } Where n is the number of element in b. Further I need to be able to evaluate S at some x numerically of course and I need to use "deriv" and produce dS/dx such that I can evaluate it also at some x. I