Thanks Duncan and Mario. It works fine now.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 11-04-12 2:33 AM, vioravis wrote:
>
>> I am trying to optimize a nested function using nlminb. This throws out an
>> error that y is missing. Can someone help me with the correct syntax??
>> Thank
>> you.
>>
>
> See ?nlminb.  The parameters to optimize should be given as a vector in a
> single parameter.  Other parameters are kept fixed through the optimization,
> and need to be passed in the nlminb call.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>> test1<- function(x,y)
>> {
>>   sum<- x + y
>>   return(sum)
>> }
>>
>> test2<- function(x,y)
>> {
>>   sum<- test1(x,y)
>>   sumSq<- sum*sum
>>   return(sumSq)
>> }
>>
>> nlminb(start = c(1,1), test2,lower = c(0,0), upper = c(5,5))
>>
>>
>>
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