A Replacement and Extension of the optim() Function CRAN Task View: Optimization (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Optimization) Provides a replacement and extension of the optim() function to unify and streamline optimization capabilities in R for smooth, possibly box constrained functions of several or many parameters Software Depends: numDeriv Suggests: BB, ucminf, Rcgmin, Rvmmin, minqa, setRNG John C Nash <nashjc@uottawa.ca> John C Nash <nashjc@uottawa.ca> and Ravi Varadhan <RVaradhan@jhmi.edu> GPL-2 2012-04-22 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=optimx