[Rcpp-devel] C++ code for ordinary differential equations

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 October 2011 at 16:59, Douglas Bates wrote:
| On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| >
| > On 5 October 2011 at 14:07, Douglas Bates wrote:
| > | On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Jonas Rauch <jonas.rauch at googlemail.com> wrote:
| > | > I am using the deSolve package successfully and I think it is probably your
| > | > best option if you want to do things in R.
| > | > The most widespread solver in C++ is the Sundials Suite as far as I know:
| > | > https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/sundials/main.html
| > | > I think someone starting writing an interface to R, but it only covers the
| > | > really basic functions.
| > | > Regards,
| > | > Jonas
| > |
| > | Thanks for the suggestion.  Because downloading the Sundials source
| > | code requires registration I don't think it would be suitable to
| > | include it in an R package on CRAN.
| >
| > Tst tst tst: You're loosing your Debian/Ubuntu instincts:
| >
| > edd at max:~$ wajig search sundials
| > libsundials-cvode1 - ordinary differentialequation solver (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-cvodes2 - ODE solver with sensistivity analysis (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-ida2 - differential-algebraic system solver (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-idas0 - IDA solver with sensitivity capabilities (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-kinsol1 - KINSOL solver (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-nvecserial0 - vector operations library (SUNDIALS library)
| > libsundials-serial - SUit of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers
| > libsundials-serial-dev - SUNDIALS development files
| > edd at max:~$
| 
| For someone who wants to wrestle with C code that generates all its
| own linear algebra calls and uses malloc, free, printf, etc.
| liberally.
| 
| Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

I see.  And the scars, but those usually stay beneath the t-shirt.

Dirk


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