On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:

> Does anybody know to introduce EQUALITY constraints in 'constrOptim'
> function?
>

You can't.

The optimizer in constrOptim requires a starting value in the *interior* 
of the feasible region, and equality constraints mean there is no 
interior.


        -thomas

Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Washington, Seattle

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