[R] Dynamic Programming in R

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 02:32:33 CET 2006


The lpSolve package can handle integer programming problems.

Here is an example of using dynamic programming in R from
first principles in another setting:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/01/18845.html

On 1/19/06, Arnab mukherji <arnab at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Hi R users,
>
> I am looking to numerically solve a dynamic program in the R environment. I was wondering if there were people out there who had expereinced success at using R for such applications. I'd rather continue in R than learn Mathlab.
>
> A concern that has been cited that may discourage R use for solving dynamic programs is its memory handling abilities.  A senior researcher had a lot of trouble with R becuase on any given run it would eat up all the computers memory and need to start using the hard disk. Yet, the memory needed was not substantial - saving the worksapce, exiting and recalling would noticebly start of tthe progam at a much lower memory use, level and a quick deteroration in a few thousand iterations.
>
> Is this a problem other people have come across? Perhaps, its a problem already fixed, since the researcher was working on this in 2002 (he claimed he had tried it on windows, mac, and unix versions to check).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Arnab
>
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