Solving and Optimizing Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems CRAN Task View: Optimization (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Optimization) 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"). Software Depends: R (>= 2.6.1), quadprog Suggests: setRNG, survival, Hmisc, numDeriv Ravi Varadhan and Paul Gilbert <pgilbert.ttv9z@ncf.ca> Ravi Varadhan GPL (>= 2) 2012-03-28 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BB