TY - JOUR AU - Mullen, Katharine M. PY - 2014/09/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Continuous Global Optimization in R JF - Journal of Statistical Software JA - J. Stat. Soft. VL - 60 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.18637/jss.v060.i06 UR - https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v060i06 SP - 1 - 45 AB - This article surveys currently available implementations in R for continuous global optimization problems. A new R package globalOptTests is presented that provides a set of standard test problems for continuous global optimization based on C functions by Ali, Khompatraporn, and Zabinsky (2005). 48 of the objective functions contained in the package are used in empirical comparison of 18 R implementations in terms of the quality of the solutions found and speed. ER -