[Rd] Version of L-BFGS-B used in optim etc

[David Duffy]

Hi.

I just noticed the paper by Morales and Nocedal

Remark on "Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B: Fortran Subroutines for Large-Scale 
Bound Constrained Optimization". TOMS 2011; 38(1): 7

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~morales/PSfiles/acm-remark.pdf

which describes a couple of improvements (speed and accuracy) to the 
original Netlib code which AFAICT is that still used by optim() 
via f2c.  Updated code is under

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/lbfgsb.html

released under the New BSD License.  Has this already been made available 
in R, perhaps in other packages such as optimx?

Cheers, David Duffy.


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