I'm interested in solving the following linear programming problem.
In this toy example, the second constraint tells me that x1 <= -1
, that is, x1
must be negative, so the minimum value of x1
should be negative. Using lpSolveAPI
, I coded up this toy example.
library(lpSolveAPI)
my.lp <- make.lp(nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
set.column(my.lp, 1, c(1, 2))
set.column(my.lp, 2, c(3, 0))
set.objfn(my.lp, c(1, 0))
set.constr.type(my.lp, rep("<=", 2))
set.rhs(my.lp, c(-4, -2))
set.bounds(my.lp, lower = c(-Inf, -Inf), upper = c(Inf, Inf))
> my.lp
Model name:
C1 C2
Minimize 1 0
R1 1 3 <= -4
R2 2 0 <= -2
Kind Std Std
Type Real Real
Upper Inf Inf
Lower -Inf -Inf
However, solving this linear programming problem in R gives me
> solve(my.lp)
[1] 3
> get.variables(my.lp)
[1] 3.694738e-57 -2.681562e+154
> get.objective(my.lp)
[1] 1e+30
get.objective(my.lp)
returns a value of 1e+30
for x1
, which clearly does not satisfy the second constraint. I specifically used set.bounds
so that x1, x2
can take any value on the real line, but I still did not get a negative number. Where did things go wrong?
library(CVXR)
x1 <- Variable(1)
x2 <- Variable(1)
# Problem definition
objective <- Minimize(x1)
constraints <- list(x1 + 3*x2 <= -4, 2*x1 + 0*x2 <= -2)
prob <- Problem(objective, constraints)
# Problem solution
sol <- solve(prob)
sol$value
# [1] -Inf
sol$status
# [1] "unbounded"