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Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by freemint on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:53AM (#29367321)
The inspiration from JuMP is obvious however I couldn't find a list of supported solvers.
Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by watwatwat123 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:14AM (#29367729)
I need to document that better, but rmpk ships with a "ROI optimizer". ROI is an R package that provides bindings to most of the popular solvers: https://roi.r-forge.r-project.org

But I am also working on providing custom bindings to different solvers, to be able to have more control over them. E.g. GLPK: https://github.com/r-opt/GLPKoptimizer

Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by freemint on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:43AM (#29368492)
The list of supported solvers is impressive. There are some which I don't know MOI can talk too.

Are there any solvers written in R and not just written in another programming language and wrapped?

Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by watwatwat123 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:44AM (#29370347)
I just added a list of the supported solvers to the README. Around 20.
Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by watwatwat123 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:33AM (#29369653)
I am not aware of any.
Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by throwawaybutwhy on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:28AM (#29368048)
Originally posted in Jan 2020 [0], albeit without much traction then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025704

Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by watwatwat123 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:40AM (#29368096)
I recently restarted development, so I thought I'd repost and see if anyone from HN is interested/has feedback or ideas.
Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by throwawaybutwhy on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:01AM (#29368212)
Thanks for your effort. You've already covered some ground in the examples, at this stage you're trying to fire up network effects and attract users/analysts/developers.

Treating this like an optimization problem, it seems that there's more potential for attracting users if you broaden the scope of vignettes and let Duckduckgo/Bing/Google do its magic for queries like 'optimum scheduling in R' or 'cutting stock in R' etc etc.

Re:Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Progra... by watwatwat123 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:27AM (#29369595)
Thanks!