Re: [Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071)

2009-11-19 Thread Elizabeth Purdom
du Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:10 PM To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: r-b...@r-project.org Subject: [Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071) Dear all, There appears to be a bug in how constrOptim handles ... arguments that are suppose to be passed to optim, according to th

Re: [Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071)

2009-11-18 Thread Ravi Varadhan
dhan.h tml -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of epur...@stat.berkeley.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:10 PM To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: r-b...@r-project.org Subject: [Rd] bug in '...'

Re: [Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071)

2009-11-18 Thread Ravi Varadhan
pages/Varadhan.h tml -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Purdom [mailto:epur...@stat.berkeley.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:12 PM To: Ravi Varadhan Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch; r-b...@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071) Hi Ravi, I just b

[Rd] bug in '...' of constrOptim (PR#14071)

2009-11-18 Thread epurdom
Dear all, There appears to be a bug in how constrOptim handles ... arguments that are suppose to be passed to optim, according to the documentation. This means you can't get the hessian to be returned, for example (so this is a real problem, and not just a question of mistaken documentation).