[R] Fitting a sine wave using solver

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Ben Zuckerberg wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have several sets of oscillation data and would like to estimate the 
> parameters of a sine function to each set (and hopefully automate this).  A 
> colleague provided an excel sheet that uses solver to minimize the RSS after 
> fitting the sine function to each data set, but this cumbersome and difficult 
> to automate.  Is there a method in R for fitting a given sine function to a 
> supplied data using maximum likelihood estimation (or minimizing the RSS). 
> Thanks in advance.
>
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