I agree with John that SANN should be removed from optim.
More importantly, the default choice of optimizer in optim should be changed
from "Nelder-Mead" to "BFGS." Nelder-Mead is a bad choice for the most
commonly encountered optimization problems in statistics. I really do not see
a good reason for not changing the default in optim.
Best regards,
Ravi
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