mxOption(model, key, value, reset = FALSE)Use value = NULL to remove an existing option. Leaving value blank will return the current value of the option specified by ‘key’.
To reset all options to their default values, use ‘reset = TRUE’. When reset = TRUE, ‘key’ and ‘value’ are ignored.
If the ‘model’ argument is set to NULL, the default optimizer option (i.e those applying to all models by default) will be set.
To see the defaults, use getOption('mxOptions').
Before the model is submitted to the back-end, all keys and values are converted into strings using the as.character function.
The “Default optimizer” option can only be set globally (i.e., with model=NULL), and not specifically to a given MxModel.
Currently, options “Gradient algorithm” and “Gradient iterations” are ignored by all optimizers other than SLSQP. Also, currently option “Analytic Gradients” only affects SLSQP and NPSOL.
The maximum number of major iterations (the option “Major iterations”) for optimization for NPSOL can be specified either by using a numeric value (such as 50, 1000, etc) or by specifying a user-defined function. The user-defined function should accept two arguments as input, the number of parameters and the number of constraints, and return a numeric value as output.
OpenMx options
| Calculate Hessian | [Yes | No] |
| calculate the Hessian explicitly after optimization. | Standard Errors |
| [Yes | No] | return standard error estimates from the explicitly calculate hessian. |
| Default optimizer | [NPSOL | SLSQP | CSOLNP] |
| the gradient-descent optimizer to use | Number of Threads |
| [0|1|2|...|10|...] | number of threads used for optimization. Default value is taken from the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS or, if that is not set, 2. |
| Feasibility tolerance | r |
| the maximum acceptable absolute violations in linear and nonlinear constraints. | Optimality tolerance |
| r | the maximum acceptable difference in fit. |
| Gradient algorithm | see list |
| finite difference method, either 'forward' or 'central'. | Gradient iterations |
| 1:4 | the number of Richardson extrapolation iterations |
| Analytic Gradients | [Yes | No] |
| should the optimizer use analytic gradients (if available)? | loglikelihoodScale |
| i | factor by which the loglikelihood is scaled. |
| Parallel diagnostics | [Yes | No] |
| whether to issue diagnostic messages about use of multiple threads | Calculate Hessian |
NPSOL-specific options
| Nolist | |
| this option suppresses printing of the options | Print level |
| i | the value of i controls the amount of printout produced by the major iterations |
| Minor print level | i |
| the value of i controls the amount of printout produced by the minor iterations | Print file |
| i | for i > 0 a full log is sent to the file with logical unit number i. |
| Summary file | i |
| for i > 0 a brief log will be output to file i. | Function precision |
| r | a measure of accuracy with which the fitfunction and constraint functions can be computed. |
| Infinite bound size | r |
| if r > 0 defines the "infinite" bound bigbnd. | Major iterations |
| i or a function | the maximum number of major iterations before termination. |
| Verify level | [-1:3 | Yes | No] |
| see NPSOL manual. | Line search tolerance |
| r | controls the accuracy with which a step is taken. |
| Derivative level | [0-3] |
| see NPSOL manual. | Hessian |
| [Yes | No] | return the Hessian (Yes) or the transformed Hessian (No). |
| Step Limit | r |
| maximum change in free parameters at first step of linesearch. | Nolist |
CSOLNP-specific options
| Major iteration_CSOLNP | i |
| maximum number of major iterations. | Minor iteration_CSOLNP |
| i | maximum number of minor iterations. |
| Function precision_CSOLNP | i |
| a measure of accuracy with which the fitfunction and constraint functions can be computed. | Major iteration_CSOLNP |
Checkpointing options
| Always Checkpoint | [Yes | No] |
| whether to checkpoint all models during optimization. | Checkpoint Directory |
| path | the directory into which checkpoint files are written. |
| Checkpoint Prefix | string |
| the string prefix to add to all checkpoint filenames. | Checkpoint Fullpath |
| path | overrides the directory and prefix (useful to output to /dev/fd/2) |
| Checkpoint Units | see list |
| the type of units for checkpointing: 'minutes', 'iterations', or 'evaluations'. | Checkpoint Count |
| i | the number of units between checkpoint intervals. |
Model transformation options
| Error Checking | [Yes | No] |
| whether model consistency checks are performed in the OpenMx front-end | No Sort Data |
| character vector of model names for which FIML data sorting is not performed | |
| RAM Inverse Optimization | [Yes | No] |
| whether to enable solve(I - A) optimization | RAM Max Depth |
| i | the maximum depth to be used when solve(I - A) optimization is enabled |
Multivariate normal integration parameters
| maxOrdinalPerBlock | i |
| maximum number of ordinal variables to evaluate together | mvnMaxPointsA |
| i | base number of integration points |
| mvnMaxPointsB | i |
| number of integration points per row | mvnMaxPointsC |
| i | number of integration points per rows^2 |
| mvnAbsEps | i |
| absolute tolerance | mvnRelEps |
| i | relative tolerance |
# set the Numbder of Threads (cores to use)
mxOption(NULL, "Number of Threads", detectCores() - 1)
testModel <- mxModel(model = "testModel") # make a model to use for example
testModel$options # show the model options (none yet)
options()$mxOptions # list all mxOptions (global settings)
testModel <- mxOption(testModel, "Function precision", 1e-5) # set precision
testModel <- mxOption(testModel, "Function precision", NULL) # clear precision
# N.B. This is model-specific precision (defaults to global setting)
# may optimize for speed
# at cost of not getting standard errors
testModel <- mxOption(testModel, "Calculate Hessian", "No")
testModel <- mxOption(testModel, "Standard Errors" , "No")
testModel$options # see the list of options you set
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