Global optimization by differential evolution in C++ CRAN Task View: Optimization (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Optimization) This package provides an efficient C++ based implementation of the DEoptim function which performs global optimization by differential evolution. Its creation was motivated by trying to see if the old approximation "easier, shorter, faster: pick any two" could in fact be extended to achieving all three goals while moving the code from plain old C to modern C++. The initial version did in fact do so, but a good part of the gain was due to an implicit code review which eliminated a few inefficiencies which have since been eliminated in DEoptim. Software Depends: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo (>= 0.2.8) LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo Suggests: inline, DEoptim, lattice Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Dirk Eddelbuettel extending DEoptim (by David Ardia, Katharine Mullen, Brian Peterson, Joshua Ulrich) which itself is based on DE-Engine (by Rainer Storn) GPL (>= 2) 2012-04-09 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RcppDE