I saw a similar question but I still don't fully understand how to implement optim. Can someone help me out with this? Thanks. Keun-Hyung
> vol<-rep(c(0.03, 0.5, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32), 3) > time<-rep(c(2,4,8),each=7) > p.mated<-c(0.47, 0.48, 0.43, 0.43, 0.26, 0.23, "null", 0.68, 0.62, 0.64, 0.58, 0.53, 0.47, + 0.24, 0.8, 0.79, 0.71, 0.56, 0.74, 0.8, 0.47) > eury<-as.data.frame(cbind(vol, time, p.mated)) > eury<-eury[-7,]; eury vol time p.mated 1 0.03 2 0.47 2 0.5 2 0.48 3 2 2 0.43 4 4 2 0.43 5 8 2 0.26 6 16 2 0.23 8 0.03 4 0.68 9 0.5 4 0.62 10 2 4 0.64 11 4 4 0.58 12 8 4 0.53 13 16 4 0.47 14 32 4 0.24 15 0.03 8 0.8 16 0.5 8 0.79 17 2 8 0.71 18 4 8 0.56 19 8 8 0.74 20 16 8 0.8 21 32 8 0.47 > > p0<- c(f=0.87, b=0.1, c=150) > eury.fit <- function (f, time, vol) + { + f<-p[1]; b<-p[2]; c<-p[3] + p.mated = p[1] * ( (1 - exp(-p[2]*time))-(p[2]/(p[2]-(p[3]/vol))) + * (exp(-p[3]/vol*time)-exp(-p[2]*time))) + } > eury.opt<- optim(p0, fn=eury.fit, NULL, method = "BFGS", hessian = TRUE) Error in fn(par, ...) : argument "time" is missing, with no default [[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.