Re: [R] temp seems ineffective in SANN (optim)

2013-02-27 Thread Enrico Schumann
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Ross Boylan writes: > I am trying to control the behavior of the SANN method in optim (R > 2.14.1) via control$temp. In my toy tests it works; in my real use, it > doesn't. > > As far as I can tell my code with different temp values is loaded; I > even traced into the functi

Re: [R] temp seems ineffective in SANN (optim)

2013-02-27 Thread Patrick Burns
I don't have an answer for your real question, but you might try a different optimizer. The blog post: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2012/07/23/a-comparison-of-some-heuristic-optimization-methods/ shows SANN to not do very well relative to other heuristic optimizers. That is for one problem, b

[R] temp seems ineffective in SANN (optim)

2013-02-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I am trying to control the behavior of the SANN method in optim (R 2.14.1) via control$temp. In my toy tests it works; in my real use, it doesn't. As far as I can tell my code with different temp values is loaded; I even traced into the function that calls optim and verified temp had the value I