[R] Profile on optim/nlm

[Ben Bolker]

  I have some code to do this; I keep meaning to clean it up and put it 
on CRAN, but it's fairly hard work to do it right.  I also thought I heard 
a rumor that there would be something like that in MASS4.  There should be 
a version on http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R (subdirectories src and 
windows), let me know how it goes for you ...

   Ben

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Steve Roberts wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Before I reinvent the wheel has anyone done a profile function for a 
> fit using optim (or nlm)?  (like the buggy profile.ms in S+) . It 
> seems a bit tricky as the function to be minimised has to have 
> arguments corresponding to the variables being fitted - which is one 
> less than the function provided to optim()... I guess you can create 
> another function on the fly somehow.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve.
> Dr Steve Roberts 
> steve.roberts at man.ac.uk
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