[R] Constrained minimization solver for nonlinear programming

[Paul Smith]

On Jan 9, 2008 4:01 AM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that R has a few bound-constrained nonlinear min and max solvers,
> such as optim, nlm, etc. But I could not find a constrained min and max
> solver that is not LP. Does this mean R do not have this capability? It is
> hard to believe that R may not be as advanced as Excel in certain areas...
> Maybe it's there but I missed it? Does anyone know?

Do you mean optimization solvers for nonlinear problems with equality
constraints? If so, you can use optim and friends with penalties to
incorporate equality constraints.

Paul