Re: [Rd] optim(…, method=‘L-BFGS-B’) stops with an error message while violating the lower bound

2016-10-09 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Spencer, Another option is to try the "lbfgs" package. Hans Werner Borchers has told me that this is a good implementation of L-BFGS. Best, Ravi From: R-devel on behalf of Spencer Graves Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2016 7:03 PM To: Mark Leeds Cc: R-devel

Re: [Rd] optim(?, method=?L-BFGS-B?) stops with an error

2016-10-09 Thread Spencer Graves
On 10/9/2016 9:00 AM, ProfJCNash wrote: I'll not copy all the previous material on this thread to avoid overload. The summary is that all the methods Spencer has tried have some issues. The bad news: This is not uncommon with optimization methods, in part because the problems are "hard", in

Re: [Rd] optim(?, method=?L-BFGS-B?) stops with an error

2016-10-09 Thread ProfJCNash
I'll not copy all the previous material on this thread to avoid overload. The summary is that all the methods Spencer has tried have some issues. The bad news: This is not uncommon with optimization methods, in part because the problems are "hard", in part because getting them implemented and li