Re: [R] High dimensional optimization in R

2018-12-01 Thread Jeremie Juste
Hello, Genetic algorithm can prove handy as well here. see for instance https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GA/vignettes/GA.html with non-convex objective functions I usually try a genetic algorithm for a few rounds then finish using nlminb Best regards, Jeremie Marc Girondot via R-help

Re: [R] Seek help - plm package (Error message: duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed)

2018-12-01 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi david, The formatting of the data frame looks like the Province and Year columns have gotten stuck together. This probably has something to do with your Excel spreadsheet or the function that you are using to read it in. If there is are fewer column names than columns, this error is likely to

Re: [R] High dimensional optimization in R

2018-12-01 Thread J C Nash
The postings about polyalgorithms don't mention that optimx has a tool called polyopt() for this. Though I included it in the package, it has not been widely tested or applied, and more experience with such approaches would certainly be of interest to a number of workers, though I suspect the

[R] Question about rmgarch package in R

2018-12-01 Thread Daniela Ximena Gualtero BriceƱo
Good morning, my name is Daniela from Colombia, I am working with rmgarch package, specifically with the cgarchspec function. One argument of this function is the "transformation", which is the type of transformation to apply to the marginal innovations of the GARCH fitted models