Re: [R] Non-linearly constrained optimisation

2008-07-20 Thread Hans W. Borchers

Please have a look at the 'Rdonlp2' package at http://arumat.net/Rdonlp2/. 
It provides non-linear optinization with nonlinear constraints, so it may be
exactly what you are looking for. 

Whether this algorithm is powerful enough for your task has to be seen. 
There are examples on the Web page that will enable a quick start.

You did not give information about the complexity of your task, nor whether
you are seeking local or global solutions.

Hans Werner Borchers
ABB Corporate Research



Dear R Users,
I am looking for some guidance on setting up an optimisation in R with
non-linear constraints.

Here is my simple problem:
- I have a function h(inputs) whose value I would like to maximise
- the 'inputs' are subject to lower and upper bounds
- however, I have some further constraints: I would like to constrain the
values for two other separate function f(inputs) and g(inputs) to be within
certain bounds

This means the 'inputs' must not only lie within the bounds specified by
the 'upper' and 'lower' bounds, but they must also not take on values such
that f(inputs) and g(inputs) take on values outside defined values. h, f
and g are all non-linear.

I believe constroptim would work if f and g were linear. Alas, they are
not. Is there any other way I can achieve this in R ?

Thanks in advance,
Tolga


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Hans W. Borchers
ABB Corporate Research Germany
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Re: [R] Non-linearly constrained optimisation

2008-07-19 Thread Stuart Nettleton

Tolga,
Your issue seems to be a common one at present. While I am relatively new  
to R (and would welcome being corrected), I haven't been able to find an  
existing module to parse algebraic equations and build acyclic networks  
(for the objective function and each constraint) to submit to solving  
routines (such as optim, BB, Patrick Burns' genopt from S Poetry, Algencan  
etc).  Certainly there are the components to build one, for example  
topological sort packages like mathgraph and Carter Butts' network. I have  
implemented acyclic networks in three major projects and so I have started  
to contemplate the missing package in both R and Mathematica. At this  
point I am significantly further advanced in Mathematica, building from  
Eric Swanson's excellent perturbationAIM package. Yet it seems slightly  
odd to me that the required functionality hasn't been developed in R up to  
this point in time. Many people need this functionality, the network  
algorithms have been around for forty years and there are many solvers,  
even open source ones like ipopt. Of course, the big guns in this field  
are GAMS and AMPL and it is perhaps their overwhelming presence or respect  
for the developers of these packages that has led R developers to be  
somewhat cautious about releasing code in this area. However, there are  
already alternatives. For a quasi open source version of AMPL you could  
use Dr Ampl (http://www.gerad.ca/~orban/drampl/ ) or write your problem in  
GAMS or AMPL format and submit to the Neos server either directly  
(http://neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/) or by using pyneos.py  
(www.gerad.ca/~orban/pyneos/pyneos.py). I really hope this gets worked out  
in R at some stage!

Stuart

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:10:35 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dear R Users,
I am looking for some guidance on setting up an optimisation in R with
non-linear constraints.

Here is my simple problem:
- I have a function h(inputs) whose value I would like to maximise
- the 'inputs' are subject to lower and upper bounds
- however, I have some further constraints: I would like to constrain the
values for two other separate function f(inputs) and g(inputs) to be  
within

certain bounds

This means the 'inputs' must not only lie within the bounds specified by
the 'upper' and 'lower' bounds, but they must also not take on values  
such

that f(inputs) and g(inputs) take on values outside defined values. h, f
and g are all non-linear.

I believe constroptim would work if f and g were linear. Alas, they are
not. Is there any other way I can achieve this in R ?

Thanks in advance,
Tolga

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Re: [R] Non-linearly constrained optimisation

2008-07-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The Ryacas package is an interface between
R and the computer algebra system, yacas.
It includes an R to yacas parser/translator and an
OpenMath/XML to R parser/translator.
See:
http://ryacas.googlecode.com


On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Stuart Nettleton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tolga,
 Your issue seems to be a common one at present. While I am relatively new to
 R (and would welcome being corrected), I haven't been able to find an
 existing module to parse algebraic equations and build acyclic networks (for
 the objective function and each constraint) to submit to solving routines
 (such as optim, BB, Patrick Burns' genopt from S Poetry, Algencan etc).
  Certainly there are the components to build one, for example topological
 sort packages like mathgraph and Carter Butts' network. I have implemented
 acyclic networks in three major projects and so I have started to
 contemplate the missing package in both R and Mathematica. At this point I
 am significantly further advanced in Mathematica, building from Eric
 Swanson's excellent perturbationAIM package. Yet it seems slightly odd to me
 that the required functionality hasn't been developed in R up to this point
 in time. Many people need this functionality, the network algorithms have
 been around for forty years and there are many solvers, even open source
 ones like ipopt. Of course, the big guns in this field are GAMS and AMPL
 and it is perhaps their overwhelming presence or respect for the developers
 of these packages that has led R developers to be somewhat cautious about
 releasing code in this area. However, there are already alternatives. For a
 quasi open source version of AMPL you could use Dr Ampl
 (http://www.gerad.ca/~orban/drampl/ ) or write your problem in GAMS or AMPL
 format and submit to the Neos server either directly
 (http://neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/) or by using pyneos.py
 (www.gerad.ca/~orban/pyneos/pyneos.py). I really hope this gets worked out
 in R at some stage!
 Stuart

 On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:10:35 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear R Users,
 I am looking for some guidance on setting up an optimisation in R with
 non-linear constraints.

 Here is my simple problem:
 - I have a function h(inputs) whose value I would like to maximise
 - the 'inputs' are subject to lower and upper bounds
 - however, I have some further constraints: I would like to constrain the
 values for two other separate function f(inputs) and g(inputs) to be
 within
 certain bounds

 This means the 'inputs' must not only lie within the bounds specified by
 the 'upper' and 'lower' bounds, but they must also not take on values such
 that f(inputs) and g(inputs) take on values outside defined values. h, f
 and g are all non-linear.

 I believe constroptim would work if f and g were linear. Alas, they are
 not. Is there any other way I can achieve this in R ?

 Thanks in advance,
 Tolga

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