[Rd] error in message printed by L-BFGS-B

[Tomas Kalibera]

Thanks for the report, fixed in R-devel.
Tomas

On 5/4/20 9:26 PM, Taiane S. Prass wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a FORTRAN version of the L-BFGS-B algorithm and I was comparing it
> to the code in the lbfgsb.c file available at R-4.0.0.tar.gz
>
> Everithing looks the same, except for those two lines that must be printed
> by the prn3lb function in case of an error (lines 3559 and 3561 in
> lbfgsb.c):
>
> case -5: Rprintf("l(%d) > u(%d).  No feasible solution", k, k); break;
>
> case -7: Rprintf("Warning:  more than 10 function and gradient
> evaluations\n   in the last line search\n"); break;
>
> I believe that these two lines are interchanged, as lines 835 to 837 say
>
> if (iback >= 10) info = -5;
> /*     i.e., to issue a warning if iback>10 in the line search. */
> goto L999;
>
> while lines 1784 and 1785 say
>
> strcpy(task, "ERROR: NO FEASIBLE SOLUTION");
> *info = -7;
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> *Profa. Dra. Taiane Schaedler PrassDepartamento de Estatística - Instituto
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>
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