Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Alberto Murta wrote:
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> > Have you considered porting the simulated annealing part of 'optim' to
> > work with S-Plus? After all it's open source.
>
> optim is written in R's internal language, inside two .Internal statements.
> That's open-source (if not much documented), but the S equivalent is as far
> as I know undocumented. There's .Call in S-PLUS 6, but that is very
> sparsely documented.
>
> I'd love to see your examples of doing this sort of thing: please make them
> available to us.
>
I never needed to do such a thing because I use both R (a lot) and S+ (a
bit). Therefore never noticed that was so hard, or impossible, to do. I
apologise to Olivier Flores if my suggestion would send him into deep
trouble.
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Alberto G. Murta
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