[R] how to show iterations

[Pieter Schoonees]

Have you tried other values for trace? Higher values will likely provide more information (depending on the method - BFGS here) - e.g. use trace = 2 or 3 etc instead of TRUE (which is similar to using 1). 

Optim calls an internal function (implemented in C I presume) so putting a print statement in the R code will not work.

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> Hi Pieter, thank you for your response.
> I am indeed using the "optim" function. I had already tried the trace option
> under the control argument - however it only provides me with iteration no.
> 10, 20, 30 etc. I would like to be able to generate the results for every
> iteration.
> 
> Here is an example (where fr is the function and grr the gradient - which
> were previously defined already)
> <- optim(c(-1,1), fr, grr, method = "BFGS", control=list(trace = TRUE)))
> 
> Also I shd mention I had tried the print command previously too but this
> hadn't worked. You mentioned that I could use fix() to add a print statement
> - would you be able to suggest how to implement it pls? Once again, thank
> you for your help -I am really appreciative!
> 
> 
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