From edd at debian.org  Sun Apr  6 18:17:35 2008
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:17:35 -0500
Subject: [Rd] [R] How to improve the "OPTIM" results
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On 6 April 2008 at 08:37, Spencer Graves wrote:
| <moved to R-devel> 
[...]
|       However, the comment from Hans Borchers (below) raises a related 
| question:  What might be the best way to build a collaboration with 
| existing optimization initiatives, possibly making R a platform of 
| choice for making it easy for users to access and compare alternative 
| optimization methods? 

Are you (used in the plural) aware of Kurt's more recent advances into OR?
There are new-ish packages RSymphony, Rglpk and other things at CRAN.

Dirk

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[Rd] [R] How to improve the "OPTIM" results
Dirk Eddelbuettel