Dear List, I'm new in R. I'm trying to solve a simple constrained optimization problem.
Essentially, let's say I have a matrix as in the object 'mm' inside the function below. My objective function should have a matrix of parameters, one parameter for each element 'mm' (4 in this case). The problem is to select the value of the parameters to maximize the function 'ff' s.t. (1) each parameter being either 0 or 1, and (2) the sum of each row in the parameter matrix should equal 1. I'm using the function constrOptim as shown below, but obviously I'm not doing things right. Any help is much appreciated. ff <- function (x) { mm <- matrix(c(10, 25, 5, 10), 2, 2) matx <- matrix(NA, 2, 2) for (i in 1:nrow(x)) { for (j in 1:ncol(x)) { matx[i, j] <- x[i, j] } } -sum(apply(mm ^ matx, 1, prod)) } constrOptim(theta = c(0, 0, 0, 0), f = ff, ui=rbind(c(1, 1), c(1, 1)), ci=c(1, 1)) Best, Axel. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.