Re: List of most highly used matlab functions.

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Jul-2008, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

| On 7/30/08 address@hidden wrote:
| > What do you think about things like fmincon or fminunc?  It seems
| > reasonable to me to add these as wrappers around sqp.  I can add the
| > simple versions I wrote specifically for (at least limited)
| > compatibility.  Perhaps someone else can then improve them.
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| There is currently a fminunc in the optimization package.  I used it 
| successfully in some functions in the data-smoothing package.  Is it 
| being considered?

It looks like that function would need some work before it could be
included in Octave.

| Is there a reason to rewrite using sqp?  I'm simply 
| curious since I don't really understand the internals of these functions.

I wasn't aware of any other version, and it seemed somewhat easier to
just write a wrapper instead of a complete new function.

| Also, these optimization functions are in the optimization toolbox of 
| Matlab.  It seems to me that we should keep them in a separate 
| optimization package as well, rather than moving them to octave.

I have no strong objection to doing that.

jwe