Re: [R] Interfacing between Optimization Software and R

2012-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You missed a lot of indications, most prominently the task view http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html On 11/03/2012 07:18, Renger van Nieuwkoop wrote: Dear all I was wondering, if there are reasons for R-Users to use (commercial) solver packages like GAMS, AMPL, Matlab, etc.

[R] Interfacing between Optimization Software and R

2012-03-11 Thread Renger van Nieuwkoop
Dear all I was wondering, if there are reasons for R-Users to use (commercial) solver packages like GAMS, AMPL, Matlab, etc. These packages can solve all kind of mathematical optimization problems like (non-) linear problems, mixed complementarity problems, etc. Why I want to know? GAMS corpor