NEWS

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optextras 2018-11-18

• Added ctrldefault() from optimx. Only for R-forge.
• optextras to be deprecated in CRAN

optextras 2018-03-28

• Examples all functions added, checked, revised.

optextras 2017-11-25

• Changed kktchk argument maxfn to maximize to agree with optimr and other packages

optextras 2016-6-30

• Streamlined the package to get rid of ufn, ugr, uhess, ugHgenb that are so far unused.
• The optsp environment is only currently used with the simple numerical gradient approximations.
• kktc renamed to kktchk. scalecheck renamed to scalechk for consistency with other naming.

optextras 2013-10-27

• Inserted missing index in bmchk (bdmsk)

optextras 2013-9-11

• Fixed some elements of manual. Alias optextras-package to optextras.

optextras 2013-8-20

• optsp scratchpad environment added. Note that it is aliased in grfwd to avoid a warning in R CMD check.
• Can change this in numerical derivative routines in case of parallel running.

optextras 2012-7-18

• Extracted helper routines from optplus to create optextras package to put on CRAN. Formerly in optplus or optfntools on R-forge, but difficulties with dependencies indicated that the support routines need to be on CRAN. Renamed to avoid name confusion.

optextras 2012-7-09

• Suppress warnings in ugHgenb -- too much unhelpful output
• Fixed optansout to print parameters

optextras 2012-6-07

• Merged optfntools into optplus to ensure R-forge build.

optextras 2012-5-26

• Added check for "on a bound" in bmchk to aid in use of tanh() transformation as in nmkb().