Barzilai-Borwein spectral methods for solving nonlinear system of equations, and for optimizing nonlinear objective functions subject to simple constraints. A tutorial style introduction to this package is available in a vignette on the CRAN download page or, when the package is loaded in an R session, with vignette("BB").
| Version: | 2011.12-1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.6.1), quadprog |
| Suggests: | setRNG, survival, Hmisc, numDeriv |
| Published: | 2011-12-20 |
| Author: | Ravi Varadhan |
| Maintainer: | Ravi Varadhan and Paul Gilbert <pgilbert.ttv9z at ncf.ca> |
| License: | GPL (≥ 2) |
| URL: | http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty_personal_pages/Varadhan.html |
| Citation: | BB citation info |
| In views: | Optimization |
| CRAN checks: | BB results |
| Package source: | BB_2011.12-1.tar.gz |
| MacOS X binary: | BB_2011.12-1.tgz |
| Windows binary: | BB_2011.12-1.zip |
| Reference manual: | BB.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
BB Tutorial BB: An R Package for Solving a Large System of Nonlinear Equations and for Optimizing a High-Dimensional Nonlinear Objective Function |
| News/ChangeLog: | NEWS |
| Old sources: | BB archive |
| Reverse depends: | blm, mederrRank, optimx, orsk |