Re: duplicate fminsearch

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/29/2013 10:25 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> There are different fminsearch functions in Octave and the Octave Forge
> optim package. Which one should be deleted?
>
> jwe

Well, Andy should probably address that:

changeset:   14895:e0525ecf156e
parent:      14893:55d0f8d70fe9
date:        Fri Jul 20 09:25:37 2012 -0700
description:
Add new function fminsearch.m

The difference looks to be that fminsearch.m in Octave is a standalone 
script-code implementation whereas the fminsearch.m in optim package 
uses fmins.m which in turn uses nmsmax.m as well as a few others. 
fmins(), nmsmax() are not available in Octave.  Searching through optim 
package, it doesn't appear that a special library or anything is needed, 
it is just that there are a number of extra files over which the work is 
distributed.

Dan