This should work, except that you're not providing any initial values for x. Is your problem one-dimensional or multi-dimensional?
-- John On Jul 8, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to optimize a simple function that takes a parameter as an > argument. Something like: > > a=2 > f(x)=-(x-a)^2 > optimize(f) > > Is there any way to do this? I have played quite a bit with optimize without > success. > > Thanks a lot > Mathieu
