Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions

2011-03-25 Thread Ravi Varadhan
pkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:23 PM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] a question on R optimiz

Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Paul Gilbert bank-banque-canada.ca> writes: > > It seems more likely that the return value from your function > is NA or NaN or Inf. This might then result in an > NA parameter value being calculated for the next step. > This is possible, for example, because the line > search extends outside

Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
It seems more likely that the return value from your function is NA or NaN or Inf. This might then result in an NA parameter value being calculated for the next step. This is possible, for example, because the line search extends outside the feasible region. You can re-write your function to ch

Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions

2011-03-25 Thread Ravi Varadhan
icine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu - Original Message - From: Ben Bolker Date: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:11 am Subject: Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Dajiang J. Liu gmail.com> writes: > >

Re: [R] a question on R optimization functions

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Dajiang J. Liu gmail.com> writes: > I use nlminb or optim for maximizing likelihood functions. Sometimes, > the parameter values happen to be NA, then the program will hang there > and iterate forever without stopping. No error message will be > produced. So I can not use error catch method such