optimx

2025-4.9

Expanded Replacement and Extension of the 'optim' Function

88packages depend

275.7Kdownloads / year

54.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by John C NashFirst published 2010-08-0223 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a replacement and extension of the optim() function to call to several function minimization codes in R in a single statement. These methods handle smooth, possibly box constrained functions of several or many parameters. Note that function 'optimr()' was prepared to simplify the incorporation of minimization codes going forward. Also implements some utility codes and some extra solvers, including safeguarded Newton methods. Many methods previously separate are now included here. This is the version for CRAN.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("optimx", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("nashjc/optimx")

Development version from nashjc/optimx. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-optimx

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-optimx

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-optimx

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

54.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,751 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 32%

Downloads

275.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #810 · ~755/day · ~23K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nashjc/optimx

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2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

93Commits

2Contributors

93 commits · Last activity 2025-05-23 · +16.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/nashjc/optimx on 2026-07-19.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

numDeriv nloptr pracma

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

knitr rmarkdown setRNG BB ucminf minqa dfoptim lbfgsb3c lbfgs subplex marqLevAlg testthat R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

88direct

18indirect

and 40 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

John C Nash

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

John C Nash

Author, Maintainer

Ravi Varadhan

Author

Contributors (2)

Hans W Borchers

Contributor · added in 2024-12.2

Gabor Grothendieck

Contributor · added in 2013.8.6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Nash

no longer listed · 2013.8.6 to 2025-4.9

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-08-02
Total releases: 23 / 16 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 2.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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