2006/4/14, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You appear to be trying to call nmmin from a standalone program.
> You linked against -lR, but failed to initialize R, hence the segfault.
>
> nmmin is not a part of R that is made available except to a running R
> process: it is documented in `Writing R Extensions' for use in R packages.
Thanks. Initializing R does seem to have fixed the problem. In this, I
have followed the code in tests/Embedding, in particular
embeddedRCall.c. I was led to this code by Section 7.1 of "Writing R
Extensions."
Below is the corrected code and an example session:
#include <R_ext/Applic.h>
#include <stdio.h>
double parabola(int n, double *par, void *ex) {
double xm = par[0] - 1;
return xm * xm + 13;
}
/*
* Copied from tests/Embedded/embeddedRCall.c:
*/
extern int Rf_initEmbeddedR(int argc, char *argv[]);
int main()
{
char *argv[]= {"nmminDemo", "--gui=none", "--silent"};
const int argc = 3;
double initial[1] = {1.5};
double result[1];
double value;
int convergenceCode;
/*
* The following values are based on the help
* page for optim.
*/
const double abstol = 1e-16;
const double reltol = 1e-8;
const double alpha = 1.0; /* reflection factor */
const double beta = 0.5; /* contraction factor */
const double gamm = 2.0; /* expansion factor */
const int trace = 0; /* tracing on */
int fncount;
const int maxit = 10000;
Rf_initEmbeddedR(argc, argv);
nmmin(1, initial, result, &value, parabola,
&convergenceCode, abstol, reltol,
NULL, alpha, beta, gamm,
trace, &fncount, maxit);
printf("fncount: %d\n", fncount);
printf("convergence code: %d\n", convergenceCode);
printf("min of %f at x = %f\n", value, result[0]);
return 0;
}
----
$ gcc nmminDemo.c -g
-I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.1.1/Resources/include
-L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.1.1/Resources/lib -lR
$ R CMD ./a.out
fncount: 24
convergence code: 0
min of 13.000000 at x = 1.000195
--
David Faden, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM: pitulx
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