I think the cost is small, and have just added this.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> If I name the elements of the vector of initial values passed to
> optim(), then it attaches the names to the final result, e.g.
>
> > f <- function(parms) (parms[1]-1)^2+(parms[2]-2)^2
> > optim(c(x=3,y=4), f)
> $par
> x y
> 0.9999635 2.0003241
>
> $value
> [1] 1.063637e-07
>
> $counts
> function gradient
> 65 NA
>
> $convergence
> [1] 0
>
> $message
> NULL
>
> However, the vector that gets passed to f doesn't have its names attached:
>
> > f <- function(parms) {
> + print(parms)
> + (parms["x"]-1)^2+(parms["y"]-2)^2
> + }
> > optim(c(x=3,y=4), f)
> [1] 3 4
> Error in optim(c(x = 3, y = 4), f) : function cannot be evaluated at
> initial parameters
>
> Is this something that should be fixed, i.e. could it be fixed without
> making optim() substantially slower? If not, it's at least something
> that should be documented.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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