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Is there a package in R that handles general linear (in-)equality + box constrained optimization? If it is not there, could anyone advise me which way to go? And/or point me to packages that solve these problems partially? best, ingmar -- Ingmar Visser Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam The Netherlands http://users.fmg.uva.nl/ivisser/ tel:

Dear friends. I am using function constrOptim(c(0.5,0.3,0.5), fit.error, fit.error.grr, ui=-1*ui,ci=-1*ci) and I am confronted with error message "initial value not feasible" I plug in the initial value of (0.5,0.3,0.5) to function fit.error and fit.error.grr and have pretty reasonable result. I inequality "ui %*% theta - ci >= 0" as suggested in the R manual and it is

Hello All, I would like to optimize a (log-)likelihood function subject to a number of linear constraints between parameters. These constraints are equality constraints of the form A%*%theta=c, ie (1,1) %*% 0.8,0.2)^t = 1 meaning that these parameters should sum to one. Moreover, there are bounds on the individual parameters, in most cases that I am considering parameters are bound between zero

Hi AlL, I ahve this problem that my objective function is discontinous in the paramaters and I need to use methods such as nelder-mead to get around this. My question is: How do i compute standard errors to a problem that does not have a gradient? Any literature on this is greatly appreciated. Jean,

Hi All, Does someone have an idea of how to cleverly convert a categorical timeseries into a transition matrix? Ie, I have something like: x<- c(1,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,2), And I want a matrix with counts and/or probabilities: > tr <- matrix(c(2,3,2,2),2,2) > tr [,1] [,2] [1,] 2 2 [2,] 3 2 Meaning that there are two transitions from 1 to 1, two from 1 to 2, three from 2 to 1

Dear useRs, I'm trying to create a barplot like so: x=matrix(1:10,2,5) barplot(x,leg=c("left","right"),besid=T) The legend is placed in default position topright, however the data are plotted there too. I tried controlling the legend position by adding x="topleft" but this results in an error that x matches multiple formal arguments. Leaving out the legend

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

Hi All, I'm building a package using C/C++ and Fortran code which usually runs fine. However I do get occasional bus errors around the time of exiting one of the C functions. Where do I need to be looking to solve this problem? Do bus errors stem from unmapped memory exceptions? How can I find out if that is what is happening while running R? Any hints greatly appreciated. Best, ingmar

Dear All, I am having trouble in using R function "constrOptim" to do constraint optimization. It seems that "constrOptim" calls function "optim" when it does the optimization, and "optim" allows us to set "method" to be "SANN" if we want to use simulated annealing. In "optim", the function allows us to set gradient to be

Hi there, I am trying to write a c++ shared library for R. I need a function which has the same functionality as sample() in R, i.e., does permutation, sample with/without replacement. Does R have internal sample routine so that I can call it directly? I did not find it in R.h, Rinternal.h. Thanks

Hello, I tried to fit a poisson distribution but looking at the function fitdistr() it does not optimize lambda but simply estimates the mean of the data and returns it as lambda. I'm a bit confused because I was expecting an optimization of this parameter to gain a good fit... If I would use mle() of stats4 package or mle2() of bbmle package, I would have to write the function by myself

Hi all, I am working on Macos x 10.3 (Panther) to build a package consisting of C/C++ code that is called from R. In the C/C++-sources I use several commands to print info to the console: std::cout << "info" << endl; and: Rprintf("info\n"); Both work fine when R is run on the command line but neither works when running Raqau (I did check the preference boxes

Dear R-help, I'm trying to load the fGarch package and keep running into problems with tcltk: After succesfully instaling fGarch (and dependencies) I get: >library(fGarch) Loading required package: fBasics Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: robustbase Loading required package: fCalendar Loading required package: MASS Loading

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')

Hello All, Does anyone know of a package that performs constraint-based clusters? Ideally the package could perform "Time-Ordered Clustering", a technique applied in a recent journal article by Runger, Nelson, Harnish (using MS Excel). Quote, "in our specific implementation of constrained clustering, the clustering algorithm remains agglomerative and hierarchical, but observations

Hi My data looks like this startDate="2008-06-01" dateRange =c( "2008-10-01","2008-12-01") Is there any method to find the week number from the startDate range ----- Thanks in Advance Arun -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Week-number-from-a-date-tp4410223p4410223.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Dear R-help, I'm facing a problem with defining a repeated measures anova with weighted data. Here's the code to reproduce the problem: # generate some data seed=11 rtrep <- data.frame(rt=rnorm(100),ti=rep(1:5,20),subj=gl (20,5,100),we=runif(100)) # model with within factor for subjects/repeated measurements, no problem aov(rt~ti + Error(subj/ti),data=rtrep) #model with weights

Can anybody, please, explain me how many parameter are estimated using randomLCA? For examples, model "dentistry.lca2random" estimate 1 scale (or variance, b_j) parameter and 2 position parameters (a_cj)? Doesn't it? Do I need at least 4 diagnostic tests for such a model? What happens if I specify options blocksize and byclass? How many diagnostic tests (or rater) I need?

Dear List, We are using RHmm to cluster data through HMM. We would like to restrict the transition matrix of HMM, to get hierarchical connections between clusters. But, RHmm doesn't seem to support these restrictions. Can any one suggest a library to do that. Thanks, Kishor

Hello. I have some problems, when I try to model an optimization problem with some constraints. The original problem cannot be solved analytically, so I have to use routines like "Simulated Annealing" or "Sequential Quadric Programming". But to see how all this works in R, I would like to start with some simple problem to get to know the basics: The Problem: min f(x1,x2)=