[Rd] Mirror selection Was: French Toulouse CRAN mirror always down

2012-09-29 Thread Alexander Klimov
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Glad to know this problem will no longer exist in the future. To ensure that, the model of mirror selection should be reworked: if user wants, he may state his preferences, but by default the mirror should be chosen automatically and if the

Re: [Rd] non-differentiable evaluation points in nlminb(), follow-up of PR#15052

2012-09-29 Thread Sebastian Meyer
Thanks for the pointers to the packages optimx and maxLik. Up to now, I actually did not spend much time in searching for elaborate R packages specifically dealing with optimization problems, but was just satisfied using the optim methods or nlminb. I chose nlminb, because it can take advantage of