optimParallel: Parallel Version of the L-BFGS-B Optimization Method

Provides a parallel version of the L-BFGS-B method of optim(). The main function of the package is optimParallel(), which has the same usage and output as optim(). Using optimParallel() can significantly reduce the optimization time.

Version: 1.0-2
Depends: R (≥ 3.5), stats, parallel
Suggests: R.rsp, roxygen2, spam, microbenchmark, testthat, ggplot2, numDeriv, lbfgsb3c
Published: 2021-02-11
Author: Florian Gerber ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Florian Gerber <flora.fauna.gerber at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/florafauna/optimParallel-R/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/florafauna/optimParallel-R
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: optimParallel citation info
Materials: README NEWS
In views: Optimization
CRAN checks: optimParallel results

Documentation:

Reference manual: optimParallel.pdf
Vignettes: A Parallel Version of the L-BFGS-B Optimization Method

Downloads:

Package source: optimParallel_1.0-2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: optimParallel_1.0-2.zip, r-release: optimParallel_1.0-2.zip, r-oldrel: optimParallel_1.0-2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): optimParallel_1.0-2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): optimParallel_1.0-2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): optimParallel_1.0-2.tgz
Old sources: optimParallel archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: skewlmm
Reverse imports: bvhar, eicm, flipr, GeneralizedWendland, GeoModels, grmsem, Markovchart, phytools, quickNmix, scgwr, starvars, varycoef, xhaz
Reverse suggests: GLMMadaptive, metafor, MetricGraph, rSPDE

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