>>>>> "JN" == Prof John C Nash <nas...@uottawa.ca>
>>>>> on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:43 -0400 writes:
JN> Recently I reported a small bug in optim's SANN method
JN> failing to report that it had exceeded the maximum
JN> function evaluation limit in the convergence code. This
JN> is a small enough matter that I was reluctant to create
JN> a full-blown bug report. Indeed in the optimx package
JN> Ravi Varadhan and I have been developing on r-forge
JN> (under the OptimizeR project) it was a minimal work
JN> around to fix the matter in our wrapper that
JN> incorporates optim() and a number of other tools. While
JN> I don't normally do C code, I could likely figure out a
JN> fix for optim too.
JN> My query is about how to best get this done without
JN> causing a lot of work for others i.e., where to I send
JN> patches etc. I expect there are a number of similar
JN> issues for different areas of R and its documentation,
JN> and a clarification from someone in the core team could
JN> streamline things. Maybe the bug system is still the
JN> right place?
Yes, and in R the function bug.report()
Martin
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