Changes in optextras Changes before 2012-5-26 not recorded TODOS o scalechk should take account of masks Changes 2018-11-18 o Added ctrldefault() from optimx. Only for R-forge. o optextras to be deprecated in CRAN 2018-03-28 o Examples all functions added, checked, revised. 2017-11-25 o Changed kktchk argument maxfn to maximize to agree with optimr and other packages 2016-6-30 o Streamlined the package to get rid of ufn, ugr, uhess, ugHgenb that are so far unused. o The optsp environment is only currently used with the simple numerical gradient approximations. o kktc renamed to kktchk. scalecheck renamed to scalechk for consistency with other naming. 2013-10-27 o Inserted missing index in bmchk (bdmsk) 2013-9-11 o Fixed some elements of manual. Alias optextras-package to optextras. 2013-8-20 o optsp scratchpad environment added. Note that it is aliased in grfwd to avoid a warning in R CMD check. o Can change this in numerical derivative routines in case of parallel running. 2012-7-18 o 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. 2012-7-09 o Suppress warnings in ugHgenb -- too much unhelpful output o Fixed optansout to print parameters 2012-6-07 o Merged optfntools into optplus to ensure R-forge build. 2012-5-26 o Added check for "on a bound" in bmchk to aid in use of tanh() transformation as in nmkb().