On 1/15/2008 9:37 AM, Sarah Touati wrote: > I am trying to view the source code of the function nlm in the stats > package of R 2.4.1. > > I downloaded the source from CRAN and opened nlm.R, and it calls a > .Internal function: > > .Internal(nlm(function(x) f(x, ...), p, hessian, typsize, fscale, > msg, ndigit, gradtol, stepmax, steptol, iterlim)) > > This is the same thing I saw when entering the function name at the R > command prompt. Where will I find the actual code?
Uwe Ligges wrote about this in R-news, in this issue: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4.pdf, page 43. You need to find the C code corresponding to nlm. That is the do_nlm routine in src/main/optimize.c, but naturally enough, it calls a lot of lower level routines. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
