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  nloptwrap                                                             NEWS
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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5-7 (2014-01-14)

    o The package now imports 'nloptr' in the NAMESPACE file.
    o Requires the latest version 0.9.6 of 'nloptr'.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5-6 (2014-01-14)

    o Unchanged version, version number increased to be able
      to resubmit to CRAN -- last version got rejected.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5-5 (2013-08-06)

    o Added agmented Lagrangian approach for the following local solvers:
      COBYLA, LBFGS, MMA, and SLSQP

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5-1 (2013-05-09)

    o Updated to NLOPT 2.3 and nloptr 0.9.1
    o Added stochastic global optimization routine stogo().

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4-5 (2013-02-13)

    o Pass additional function parameters to the gradient.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4-4 (2013-02-06)

    o Improvements such as 'population', 'randseed', etc.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4-3 (2013-02-05)

    o crs2lm() controlled random search with local mutation.
    o isres() improved stochastic ranking evolution strategy.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4-1 (2013-02-04)

    o mlsl() with gradient-based variant.
    o Introduced local options to nl.opts().

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3-3 (2013-02-03)

    o mma() method of moving asymptotes.
    o varmetric() shifted limited-memory variable-metric.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3-1 (2013-02-02)

    o Converted to optim-like return values.
    o Added `noscaling' and `randomized' variants to direct() and directL().

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2-6 (2013-02-01)

    o lbfgs() low-storage BFGS algorithm (with box constraints).
    o tnewton() preconditioned truncated Newton and variants.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2-4 (2013-01-31)

    o neldermead() Nelder-Mead simplex routine.
    o sbplx() Rowan's `subplex' algorithm, a N-M variant.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2-1 (2013-01-30)

    o direct(), directL() DIviding RECTangles algorithm.
    o option controls simplified.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1-5 (2013-01-29)

    o slsqp() sequential (least-squares) quadratic programming.
    o cobyla(), bobyqa(), newuoa() Powell's approximation solvers.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.1-1 (2013-01-28)

    o nl.grad() and nl.jacobian() numerical gradients and jacobians
    o nl.options() for installing NLOPT options and allowing user changes.
