This looks much like the kinds of problems that function 'solve.QP' in package 'quadprog' can handle. But if you want people to help you, follow the posting guide and 'provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code'. You need to show people what you tried and how it failed (so provide actual error messages, and do not just say 'it creates an error').
Regards, Enrico Am 19.12.2011 20:32, schrieb Russell2:
Dear All I have a constrained optimisation problem, I want to maximise the following function t(weights) %*% CovarianceMatrix %*% weights for the weights, subject to constraints on each element within the weights& the weights vector summing to 1. i.e. weights = (x1, x2, x3), where x1 is within some given range (a +b, a - b). I have tried to do this using the optim function in R, setting the minimum& maximum tolerances as lower and upper bounds but once I set the constraint of the weights summing to 1 in the function, it creates an error. I have also looked at the constrOptim& solveQP packages and have similar problems with constraint settings. Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Constrained-Optimisation-tp4215341p4215341.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
-- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://nmof.net/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
