On Thu, 31 May 2018, ivo welch writes:
> dear R wizards: `optimize()` requires the user to provide the
> brackets. I can write a bracketing routine, given a function and a
> starting point, but I was wondering whether there was already a
> "standard" user-exposed implementation. (Presumably, this is used in
> nlm, too; alas, nlm is in C, not native R.) regards, /iaw
>
There is a 'bracketing' function in package NMOF,
though it is for root-finding (i.e. for optimising you
would need the derivative).
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Enrico Schumann (the maintainer of NMOF)
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://enricoschumann.net
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