[Rd] Feature request: wrapper to gsl multiroot

2007-08-09 Thread Manuel Morales
A question that often comes up in the listserv is how to solve a system of nonlinear equations. Recently, a new wrapper function that interfaces with the gsl library multimin was added to the gsl package as an alternative to optim(). Unfortunately, I can't code in C, so this is a shameless request

Re: [Rd] Optimization in R

2007-08-04 Thread Manuel Morales
he normal way. (i.e. *.[ch] into src/, *.R into R/, and so > on...) I get the same error message (embedded in the log file 'gsl.Rcheck/00install.out'). I'll just wait for the updated package to be released ... Thanks again! > Cheers, > Andrew > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2

Re: [Rd] Optimization in R

2007-08-04 Thread Manuel Morales
Thanks for the functions! I tried installing the multimin function. To get it to compile, I needed to change the Makefile to reflect my path and by adding the flags fPIC in response to the error: "/usr/bin/ld: vector.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a