Ben Bolker wrote: > optim ignores misspelled control parameters, so that trying > to set (e.g.) "maxint=1000" in the control argument silently > does nothing. The patch below (watch out for line breaks! also > posted at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_patch.R , and > http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_new.R) adds > three lines to optim.R that issue a warning if any names of > elements of "control" fail to match the internal object that > contains the defaults. > > Here is code that shows the behavior:
[... details deleted] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-March/048710.html Ben, another issue of optim is that I don't see any reason why the REPORT control parameter is evaluated by "BFGS" and "L-BFGS-B" only but not, for example, by "SANN", see: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-March/048710.html Thomas P. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
