I used to consider using R and "Optim" to replace my commercial packages: Gauss and Matlab. But it turns out that "Optim" does not converge completely. The same data for Gauss and Matlab are converged very well. I see that there are too many packages based on "optim" and really doubt if they can be trusted!
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