Martin, 1. I'd vote for replacement. 2. The "Sig" argument was completely opaque to me. I'd vote for something like this bracket = "fixed" the old behavior, treat the upper and lower as fixed values = "search" expand the limits if needed = "usearch" only the upper limit is expanded = 'lsearch' only the lower 3. I agree with Duncan that the searches should count toward the total iterations.
Terry T. On 05/30/2013 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: > With main R releases only happening yearly in spring, now is > good time to consider*and* discuss new features for what we > often call "R-devel" and more officially is > R Under development (unstable) (.....) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" > > Here is one such example I hereby expose to public scrutiny: > > A few minutes ago, I've committed the following to R-devel > (the 'trunk' in the svn repository for R): > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r62834 | maechler | 2013-05-30 10:01:33 +0200 (Thu, 30 May 2013) | 1 line > Changed paths: > M doc/NEWS.Rd > M src/library/stats/NAMESPACE > M src/library/stats/R/nlm.R > M src/library/stats/man/uniroot.Rd > M tests/Examples/stats-Ex.Rout.save > > new "safe" uniroot() =: unirootS() [may change; see R-devel e-mail] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ... [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel