Re: [Help-glpk] Specify feasible solution for LP

[Raphael Clifford]

Thanks very much.  I am actually calling from R.

Raphael

On 9 October 2012 03:48, Kevin Hunter <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 3:02pm -0400 Mon, 08 Oct 2012, Raphael Clifford wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to explicitly set a feasible solution when solving a
>> linear program in glpk? I would like to do this simply for speed
>> reasons as I always know a near optimal solution.
>
>
> If you are using the API, then look at the GLPK docs (usually glpk.pdf),
> section "LP basis constructing routines".
>
> You may also be interested in:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLPK/API_usage#Prescribed_starts
>
> If are using GMPL or the command line binary 'glpsol', then this is not
> possible.  I do not know if there are any plans to make it possible.
>
> Kevin