On 2024-12-04 1:25 p.m., Adelchi Azzalini wrote:
Hi. I am working on the development of an existing package (smof, on CRAN). My
current aim is widen the list of possible optimizers from which the user can
select one method for optimizing a certain task. Well-known possibilities
within the base
Adelchi,
The package 'PortfolioAnalytics', which we maintain, uses this pattern
extensively to support different optimization solvers. The packages
are all in 'Suggests' rather than 'Imports', because we don't want them
all required all the time.
So the code pattern is something like this:
if(o
Hi. I am working on the development of an existing package (smof, on CRAN). My
current aim is widen the list of possible optimizers from which the user can
select one method for optimizing a certain task. Well-known possibilities
within the base package are optim (with various options) and nlmin
