Hi, thanks! I added meq=1 and it did not seem to work. The result is the same as before.
> x <- 2*c(1,0.5,0.8,0.5,1,0.9, 0.8,0.9,1) > Dmat <- matrix(x, byrow=T, nrow=3, ncol=3) > dvec <- numeric(3) > Amat <- matrix(0,3,4) > Amat[,1 ] <- c(1,1,1) > Amat[,2:4 ]<- t(diag(3)) > bvec <- c(3,0,0,0) > > solve.QP(Dmat,dvec,Amat,bvec=bvec, meq=1) $solution [1] 1.500000e+00 1.500000e+00 -8.881784e-16 $value [1] 6.75 $unconstrained.solution [1] 0 0 0 $iterations [1] 3 0 $Lagrangian [1] 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.6 $iact [1] 1 4 > 2010/4/11 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > Add meq=1 to the arguments. > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:50 AM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, thank you very much for the reply! > > > > Consider minimize quadratic form w'Aw with A be the following matrix. > >> Dmat/2 > > [,1] [,2] [,3] > > [1,] 1.0 0.5 0.8 > > [2,] 0.5 1.0 0.9 > > [3,] 0.8 0.9 1.0 > > I need to find w=(w1,w2,w3), a 3 by 1 vector, such that sum(w)=3, and > wi>=0 > > for all i. > > > > Below is the code I wrote, using the function solve.QP , however, the > > solution for w still have a > > negtive component. Can some one give me some suggestions? > > > > Thank you very much! > > > >> x <- 2*c(1,0.5,0.8,0.5,1,0.9, 0.8,0.9,1) > >> Dmat <- matrix(x, byrow=T, nrow=3, ncol=3) > >> dvec <- numeric(3) > >> Amat <- matrix(0,3,4) > >> Amat[,1 ] <- c(1,1,1) > >> Amat[,2:4 ]<- t(diag(3)) > >> bvec <- c(3,0,0,0) > >> > >> solve.QP(Dmat,dvec,Amat,bvec=bvec) > > $solution > > [1] 1.500000e+00 1.500000e+00 -8.881784e-16 > > $value > > [1] 6.75 > > $unconstrained.solution > > [1] 0 0 0 > > $iterations > > [1] 3 0 > > $Lagrangian > > [1] 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.6 > > $iact > > [1] 1 4 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2010/4/10 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > >> > >> Check out the quadprog package. > >> > >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:36 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hi, thanks for the reply. > >> > A will be a given matrix satisfying condition 1. I want to find the > >> > vector w that minimizes the > >> > quadratic form. w satisfies condition 2. > >> > > >> > > >> > 2010/4/10 Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> > >> > > >> >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> I am trying to minimize the quardratic form w'Aw, with certain > >> >> >> constraints. > >> >> >> In particular, > >> >> >> (1) A=(a_{ij}) is n by n matrix and it is symmetric positive > >> >> definite, > >> >> >> a_{ii}=1 for all i; > >> >> >> and 0<a_{ij}<1 for i not equal j. > >> >> >> (2) w'1=n; > >> >> >> (3) w_{i}>=0 > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Analytically, for n=2, it is easy to come up with a result. For > >> >> >> larger > >> >> n, it > >> >> >> seems > >> >> >> difficult to obtain the result. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Does any one know whether it is possible to use R to numerically > >> >> >> compute > >> >> it? > >> >> > > >> >> > And your decision variables are? Both w[i] and a[i,j] ? > >> >> > >> >> In addition, what do you mean by "larger n"? n = 20 is already large > >> >> (in your sense)? > >> >> > >> >> Paul > >> >> > >> >> ______________________________________________ > >> >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > >> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> >> > >> > > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________ > >> > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.