A Replacement and Extension of the 'optim' Function
c( person(given = c("John", "C"), family = "Nash", role =
c("aut", "cre"), email = "nashjc@uottawa.ca"), person(given =
"Ravi", family = "Varadhan", role = "aut", email =
"RVaradhan@jhmi.edu"), person(given = "Gabor", family =
"Grothendieck", role = "ctb", email =
"ggrothendieck@gmail.com") )
John C Nash [aut, cre], Ravi Varadhan [aut], Gabor Grothendieck [ctb]
Provides a test of replacement and extension of the optim()
function to unify and streamline optimization capabilities in R
for smooth, possibly box constrained functions of several or
many parameters. This version has a reduced set of methods and is
intended to be on CRAN.
optextras, numDeriv, setRNG, Rvmmin, Rcgmin

John C Nash [aut, cre],
Ravi Varadhan [aut],
Gabor Grothendieck [ctb]

R port of the Scilab optimsimplex module
Provides a building block for optimization algorithms
based on a simplex. The optimsimplex package may be used in the
following optimization methods: the simplex method of Spendley
et al., the method of Nelder and Mead, Box's algorithm for
constrained optimization, the multi-dimensional search by
Torczon, etc...

R Port of the 'Scilab' Optimsimplex Module
Provides a building block for optimization algorithms
based on a simplex. The 'optimsimplex' package may be used in the
following optimization methods: the simplex method of Spendley
et al. (1962) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1962.10490033>, the method of
Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308>, Box's algorithm for
constrained optimization (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/8.1.42>, the
multi-dimensional search by Torczon (1989)
<http://www.cs.wm.edu/~va/research/thesis.pdf>, etc...

Provides a building block for optimization algorithms
based on a simplex. The 'optimsimplex' package may be used in the
following optimization methods: the simplex method of Spendley
et al. (1962) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1962.10490033>, the method of
Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308>, Box's algorithm for
constrained optimization (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/8.1.42>, the
multi-dimensional search by Torczon (1989)
<https://www.cs.wm.edu/~va/research/thesis.pdf>, etc...