Solver for OpenOffice Cal

[Marc Schwartz]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> OpenOffice Calc does not apparently have a tool similar to MS Excel's
> solver. The solver of Gnumeric is limited only to Linear Programming
> problems; it is not able to deal with non-linear problems. Is there
> some tool for Linux to replace MS Excel's solver? Or has one to boot
> in MS Windows to solve non-linear optimization problems?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul

Don't use a spreadsheet for that.

Take a look at R:

   http://www.r-project.org/

HTH,

Marc Schwartz