[R] Numerical Optimization

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a function, or package, in R that does numerical optimisations,
> such as the Newton-Raphson method?
>
> I searched through the help files and found the "optim" function, but it
> does seem like it has this N-R method.

Right, it has better ones.  nlm() has a modified Newton method, though.

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