R: Question about Optimizing - Invalid Function Value in Optimize

Question

R Programming Question - Hello, we are two summer research students participating in a research program. After trial and error, we have not been able to pinpoint what is causing

Answer 1

Are you sure H_fun is returning a one-dimensional value?

Look at fcn1() in the R optimize() source code:

static double fcn1(double x, struct callinfo *info)
{
    SEXP s;
    REAL(CADR(info->R_fcall))[0] = x;
    s = eval(info->R_fcall, info->R_env);
    switch(TYPEOF(s)) {
    case INTSXP:
        if (length(s) != 1) goto badvalue;
        if (INTEGER(s)[0] == NA_INTEGER) {
            warning(_("NA replaced by maximum positive value"));
        return DBL_MAX;
        }
        else return INTEGER(s)[0];
        break;
    case REALSXP:
        if (length(s) != 1) goto badvalue;
        if (!R_FINITE(REAL(s)[0])) {
            warning(_("NA/Inf replaced by maximum positive value"));
            return DBL_MAX;
        }
        else return REAL(s)[0];
        break;
    default:
        goto badvalue;
    }
 badvalue:
    error(_("invalid function value in 'optimize'"));
    return 0;/* for -Wall */
}

goto badvalue occurs if length is not 1. Also, the package summary states that optimize() works on a one-dimensional unconstrained function.