A wrapper for 'optim' for nonlinear regression problems; see Nocedal J and Write S (2006, ISBN: 978-0387-30303-1).  Performs ordinary least squares (OLS), iterative re-weighted least squares (IRWLS), and maximum likelihood (MLE). Also includes the robust outlier detection (ROUT) algorithm; see Motulsky, H and Brown, R (2006) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-123>.

Calculates autoecological data (optima and tolerance ranges) of a biological species
    given an environmental matrix. The package calculates by weighted averaging, using the number of occurrences to adjust the 
    tolerance assigned to each taxon to estimate optima and tolerance range in cases where taxa 
    have unequal occurrences. See the detailed methodology by Birks et al. (1990) <doi:10.1098/rstb.1990.0062>, and a 
    case example by Potapova and Charles (2003) <doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01080.x>.

Provides a parallel version of the L-BFGS-B method of optim(). The main function of the package is optimParallel(), which has the same usage and output as optim(). Using optimParallel() can significantly reduce the optimization time.

Provides a building block for optimization algorithms
        based on a simplex. The 'optimsimplex' package may be used in the
        following optimization methods: the simplex method of Spendley
        et al. (1962) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1962.10490033>, the method of 
        Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308>, Box's algorithm for
        constrained optimization (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/8.1.42>, the 
        multi-dimensional search by Torczon (1989) 
        <https://www.cs.wm.edu/~va/research/thesis.pdf>, etc...

Intended to assist in the choice of the sampling strategy to implement in a survey.

Assessment and diagnostics for comparing competing
    clustering solutions, using predictive models. The main intended
    use is for comparing clustering/classification solutions of
    ecological data (e.g. presence/absence, counts, ordinal scores) to
    1) find an optimal partitioning solution, 2) identify
    characteristic species and 3) refine a classification by merging
    clusters that increase predictive performance. However, in a more
    general sense, this package can do the above for any set of
    clustering solutions for i observations of j variables.