[R] What training algorithm does nnet package use?

[Wee-Jin Goh]

Just to add to this, I also need to know what language is the "nnet"  
package written in? Is it in pure R or is it a wrapper for a C  
library. It really is performing very quickly, going through 200  
epochs in seconds when it took "neural" minutes, and neural is  
written in R.

It all may sound like a trivial question, but it is important as I  
need to know all this for the analysis I'm doing for a paper.

Cheers,
Wee-Jin


On 22 Nov 2006, at 15:41, Wee-Jin Goh wrote:

> Greetings list,
>
> I've just swapped from the "neural" package to the "nnet" package and
> I've noticed that the training is orders of magnitude faster, and the
> results are way more accurate.
>
> This leads me to wonder, what training algorithm is "nnet" using? Is
> it a modification on the standard backpropagation? Or a completely
> different algorithm? I'm trying to account for the speed differences
> between neural and nnet, and the documentation on the nnet package is
> rather sparse on what training algorithm is used (either that, or I'm
> getting blind and missed it totally).
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Wee-Jin
>
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