[R] ms function

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Daniel A. Powers wrote:

>
> R -users
>
> Is anyone familiar with the ms function in Splus? I think this is a
> general optimization tool (i.e., ML estimation). Is there a corresponding
> function in R?

If your question is whether there is a general optimisation tool in R,
the answer is yes.  help(optim) will give you more information

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle


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