From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Tue Oct  3 16:51:10 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:51:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] bounds violations, infinite loops in optim/L-BFGS-B (PR#671)
Message-ID: <200010031551.QAA02391@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>

> From: ben@zoo.ufl.edu
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:45:37 -0400 (EDT)

[...]

>   On the other hand, I might choose to work on adapting a different set of
> code -- the "nlminb" function in Splus5 appears to be based on a different
> set of Netlib FORTRAN code (dmnfb,dmngb,dmnhb) -- don't know the
> particular reasons for using a different algorithm here.

1) The one used in optim is later and supposedly better.

2) I do try not to copy S-PLUS (as distinct from S).

3) There are quite a few problems with nlminb too.

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[Rd] bounds violations, infinite loops in optim/L-BFGS-B (PR#671)
Prof Brian Ripley