On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:57:36PM +0000, yan jiao wrote: > Dear All, > > I need to use simulated annealing for optimization > is there a way to limit the search place to only discrete values? And > also exclude certain solutions, e.g. exclude the solutions when all the > variables are the same?
Dear Yan: The page ?optim says If a function to generate a new candidate point is given, method ‘"SANN"’ can also be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. If you have your specific function to generate a new point, this function may apply the required restrictions. Hope this helps. Petr Savicky. ______________________________________________ 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.