Re: [R] convex optimization package for R, specifically semidefinite programming

2007-11-15 Thread Hans W Borchers
> Hi there, I do assume you are talking about the CVXOPT (and CVXMOD) Python package(s). Please note that CVXOPT only contains _interfaces_ to the solvers in MOSEK, because these are commercial products (as Roger Koenker already has mentioned). There appear to be some Python/Scipy-based solvers

Re: [R] convex optimization package for R, specifically semidefinite programming

2007-11-14 Thread roger koenker
Convex optimization is a large problem domain with many interesting new developments, and MOSEK is a particularly good implementation of many of these developments. It is quite easy to get R to speak to MOSEK via R.matlab -- i've been doing this recently for some work on density estimation, but