[R] nlminb replacement/solution?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 27 Jan 2000, A.J. Rossini wrote:

 
> What's the current best approach to dealing with the nlminb problem?  
> 
> Are there other similar constrained optimizers, or is current wisdom
> just to code it in C (or similar...)?

I believe (as the R author):

Use optim(method="L-BFGS-B") in the development version. It is a more
modern algorithm for exactly the same job.


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