[Rd] optim bug (PR#9684)

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:02:56PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> In R you rarely need to pass additional arguments in programming as 
> lexical scoping can be used to capture them.

You can also use currying, like this:

	ll <- function(data) function(params)
	{
		# compute whatever you want with data and params.
	}

Then you can call optim like this:

	optim(initial.param, ll(some.data))

Cheers,
Andrew