Scripts and Functions: Using R to Implement the Golden Section Search Method for Numerical Optimization
April 22, 2013 4 Comments
In an earlier post, I introduced the golden section search method – a modification of the bisection method for numerical optimization that saves computation time by using the golden ratio to set its test points. This post contains the R function that implements this method, the R functions that contain the 3 functions that were minimized by this method, and the R script that ran the minimization.
I learned some new R functions while learning this new algorithm.
– the curve() function for plotting curves
– the cat() function for concatenating strings and variables and, hence, for printing debugging statements
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