On 11 July 2018 at 10:00, J C Nash wrote:
| 2) Is it time to consider an effort to provide online revdep checking
| that would avoid pressure on CRAN team directly and would provide
| clearer indicators of the issues raised by a particular package?
That is very close to my R Foundation Summit ta
Excuses for the length of this, but optimx has a lot of packages
using it.
Over the past couple of months, I have been struggling with checking
a new, and much augmented, optimx package. It offers some serious
improvements:
- parameter scaling on all methods
- two safeguarded Newton methods