Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-04 Thread Patrick Burns
I think fine tuning the function might be in order. The function has just a single penalty for not meeting the constraints no matter how close it is to meeting them. A better approach is to have a penalty that depends on the amount by which all of the constraints are breached. Patrick Burns

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-04 Thread Paul Smith
, but it works in many cases. Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:32 pm Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud To: R-help r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch On 7/4/07, Ravi Varadhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be easy enough

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-04 Thread Paul Smith
0.00136226156979156 2.47224893929883e-11 0.00121959537442013 0.00249964872330666 1.58514632925203e-05 0.213308634647407 - Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 6:00 am Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud To: R-help

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-04 Thread Paul Smith
Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 6:00 am Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud To: R-help r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch On 7/4/07, RAVI VARADHAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another approach: I wrote an R function that would generate interior points as starting

[R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I am trying to solve the following maximization problem, but I cannot have rgenoud giving me a reliable solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul library(rgenoud) v - 0.90 O1 - 10 O2 - 20 O0 - v*O1+(1-v)*O2 myfunc - function(x) { U0 - x[1] U1 -

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:10 PM To: R-help Subject: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud Dear All, I am trying to solve the following maximization problem, but I cannot have rgenoud giving me a reliable solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
that the solution is right. That is why I am trying to get a solution with rgenoud, but unsuccessfully until now. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:10 PM To: R-help Subject: [R] Fine

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:10 PM To: R-help Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud On 7/3/07, Ravi Varadhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You had

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:10 PM To: R-help Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud On 7/3/07, Ravi Varadhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You had indicated in your previous email that you are having trouble finding

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
by constrOptim is not interior; the gradient is not equal to zero. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:10 PM To: R-help Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud On 7/3/07, Ravi Varadhan

Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud

2007-07-03 Thread RAVI VARADHAN
: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:32 pm Subject: Re: [R] Fine tunning rgenoud To: R-help r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch On 7/4/07, Ravi Varadhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be easy enough to check that your solution is valid (i.e. a local minimum): first, check