[NMOF-news] NMOF 0.19-0 on R-Forge

[Enrico Schumann]

v0.19-0  (2011-09-26)

   o 'bracketing', 'gridSearch' and 'restartOpt' now support distributed
     evaluation of 'fun' via 'clusterApply' from the 'snow' package. As a
     side effect, the interface of 'gridSearch' and 'restartOpt' has
     changed: instead of an option 'multicore', they now have an argument
     'method', which can be 'loop', 'multicore' or 'snow'. See the
     documentation of these functions.
   o for consistency, the 'method' argument of 'bracketing' expects
     'vectorised' rather than 'vectorise' (but both work, and also the
     '-ize' spellings)
   o substantial revision of documentation/examples
   o more intelligible error/warning messages in 'bracketing' added
   o small changes in vignettes 'Robust Regression with Particle Swarm
     Optimisation and Differential Evolution' and 'Repairing solutions'
   o file 'multicore.R' was moved to subdirectory inst/unitTests;
     thus, it is installed with the package. Some tests for package
     'snow' were added.
   o more tests added (subdirectory unitTests); in particular, tests are
     more comprehensively commented now


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Enrico Schumann
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://nmof.net/