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.

Provides a replacement and extension of the optim()
    function to call to several function minimization codes in R in a single
    statement. These methods handle smooth, possibly box constrained functions 
    of several or many parameters. Note that function 'optimr()' was prepared to
    simplify the incorporation of minimization codes going forward. Also implements some
    utility codes and some extra solvers, including safeguarded Newton methods.
    Many methods previously separate are now included here.
    This is the version for CRAN.

Introduces optional types with some() and none, as well as match_with() from functional languages.

Efficient Monte Carlo Algorithms for the price and the sensitivities of Asian and European Options under Geometric Brownian Motion.

Simple mechanisms for defining and interpreting package options. Provides
    helpers for interpreting environment variables, global options, defining
    default values and more.