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Hi there, I have a piece of Matlab code I use to optimise a trding strategy. If there are any Matlab/R specialists out there, I would appreciate your help in doing the exact same optimisation in R. I suspect I would use nlm() in R but am not sure where to define my constraints. I have attached my Matlab code below for reference. Many thanks. Constraints function [c,ceq]=TriskellConstraints(X)

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, I was just wondering if there was any available R code that could handle general constrained optimisation problems. At the moment I'm using nlminb and optim, both of which allow box constraints on the parameters, but ideally I'd like to be able to specify more general constraints on the solution

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, I have been brought back to the "R-Side" from MatLab. I have used R in graduate econometrics but only for statistics and regression (linear and nonlinear). But now I need to run general nonlinear optimization. I know about the add-in quadprog but my problem is not QP. My problem is a general nonlinear (obj funct) with linear constraints.I know about the "ms" and

i want to estimate parameters with maximum likelihood method with contraints (contant numbers). for example sum(Ai)=0 and sum(Bi)=0 i have done it without the constraints but i realised that i have to use the contraints. Without constraints(just a part-not complete): skellamreg_LL=function(parameters,z,design) { n=length(z); mu=parameters[1]; H=parameters[2]; Apar=parameters[3:10];

Dear R helpers I have a question regarding the constrainOptim. I'm coding the nested logit and would like to set a bound of rho to (0,1] as an extreme value distribution where rho = exp(lambda)/1+exp(lambda) I wonder if I can do that directly in optim (say rho > 0 & <= 1) or need to use constrainOptim I read the help but still don't know how to set ui and ci Thanks, June

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 had previously posted a question concerning the optimization of a nonlinear function conditional on equality constraints. I was pointed towards the contrOptim function. However, I do not understand the syntax of this function with respect to specifying the constraints and so I don’t know if it is what I need. The command is: constrOptim(theta, f, grad,ui,ci,…). “theta” is the

Hi, I need to solve an optimization problem in R having linear objective function and quadratic constraints(number of variables is around 80). What are the possible choices to do this in R. optim() function only allows box constrained problems. Is it possible in nlm()? Or please tell me if there is any other routine. Thanks Amit

Hi all, Could anybody point me to a good/robust numerical optimization program to use in R? I am doing some MLE fitting. Thanks!

Hello useRs, I'm using the command "solnp" in package "Rsolnp" to solve a general nonlinear programming problem. But I got an error that " the leading minor of order 15 is not positive definite ". Can anybody tell what may cause this error? Does it have something to do with the starting values? Thanks a lot!!! Xiaoxi [[alternative HTML version

Hi,I know only mle function but it seems that in mle one can only specify the bound of the unknowns forming the likelihood function. But I would like to specify something like, a = 2b or a <= 2b where 'a' and 'b' could be my parameters in the likelihood function. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you!- adschai [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

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 All, I would like to minimise a nonlinear function subject to linear inequality constraints as part of an R program. I have been using the constrOptim function. I have tried all of the methods that come with Optim, but nothing finds the correct solution. If I use the correct solution as the vector of starting values, though, my program does output the correct solution and optimum - the

Hi All, I'm trying to do the following constrained optimization example. Maximize x1*(1-x1) + x2*(1-x2) + x3*(1-x3) s.t. x1 + x2 + x3 = 1 x1 >= 0 and x1 <= 1 x2 >= 0 and x2 <= 1 x3 >= 0 and x3 <= 1 which are the constraints. I'm expecting the answer x1=x2=x3 = 1/3. I tried the "constrOptim" function in R and I'm running into some issues. I first start off

Hi, i need to minimize a quadratic function with boundary condidtions and one equality condition. In order to do that i converted the equality constraint into 2 inequality constaints and passed everything cia constrOptim, as the manual said: everything included in the ... will be passed to Optim that will pass it back to fn in case it does not need it. My code is the following: mat <-

Hello, I've got to compute a minimization equation under an equality constraint (Min g(x1,x2,x3) with x1+x2=const). The Constroptim function does not authorize an equality condition but only inequality conditions. Which function can I use instead? Thank you very much for your help. Gael Robert - +33 1 42 14 27 96 ****************************************************************** This

Dear r-users, Suppose I have two data sets data set-1 Date height ------------------------ 1/11/2005 10 2/11/2005 23 3/11/2005 54 4/11/2005 21 5/11/2005 22 data set-2 weight -------- 32 45 11 Now I want to combine this two data sets. i.e. i want to see: Date height weight ------------------------------------------- 3/11/2005 54

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] + ... +