Hi, R is quite good at optimization. Here's a basic tutorial: https://www.is.uni-freiburg.de/resources/computational-economics/5_OptimizationR.pdf
There are a LOT of possibilities: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html Sarah On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:19 PM FAIL PEDIA <soloparapaginas123456...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, and thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this > > I'm trying to learn to properly optimize a function with a constraint using > R. For example, maximize the area of a terrain with a maximum perimeter. > For this example the function would be: > > Area <- function(x,y){x*y} > > The restriction would be the following function: > > Perimeter <- function(x,y){2*(x+y)} > > The idea is to give a desired value to "Perimeter" and get the values of x > & y that maximize the area and respect the constraint. > > I've searched online for some time, and only found a video of a dude that > plotted the functions toggling the values to find the tangent optimum point > (something useless, because the idea is to make the optimization more > efficiently than using a paper and a pencil) > > Thanks again, and sorry if this question is silly. > -- Sarah Goslee (she/her) http://www.sarahgoslee.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
