The Concorde TSP Solver package contains several solvers.
Currently, interfaces to
the Concorde solver (Applegate et al. 2001), one of the most
advanced and fastest TSP solvers using branch-and-cut, and
the Chained Lin-Kernighan (Applegate et al. 2003)
implementation are provided in TSP.
The Concorde TSP Solver package is freely available for academic
research and has to
be obtained separately from the Concorde web site (see details).
Usage
## set path for executables
concorde_path(path)
## obtain a list of command line options for the solvers
concorde_help()
linkern_help()
Arguments
path
a character string with the path to the directory where
the executables are installed.
Details
The code of the Concorde TSP package is not included in this package and has to
be obtained separately from the Concorde web site (see references). Either
download the precompiled executables and place them in a suitable directory
and make them executable, or you can get the source code and compile it on your
own. TSP needs to know where the executables are. There are two options:
(1) use concorde_path() to set the path to the directory containing the
executables for concorde and linkern, or (2) make sure that the executables are
in the search path stored in the PATH environment variable
(see link{Sys.setenv}).
To get a list of all available command line options which can be used via the
clo option for solve_TSP use concorde_help() and
linkern_help(). Several options (-x, -o,
-N, -Q) are not available via solve_TSP since they
are used by the interface.
David Appletgate, Robert Bixby, Vasek Chvatal, William Cook (2001):
TSP cuts which do not conform to the template paradigm,
Computational Combinatorial Optimization, M. Junger and D. Naddef (editors),
Springer.
David Applegate and William Cook and Andre Rohe (2003):
Chained Lin-Kernighan for Large Traveling Salesman Problems,
INFORMS Journal on Computing, 15, 82–92.
See Also
solve_TSP
Examples
## Not run:
## see if Concorde is correctly installed
concorde_path()
## set path to the Concorde executible if it is not in the search PATH
## Example:
## concorde_path("~/concorde/")
concorde_help()
data("USCA312")
## run concorde only with fast cuts (-V)
solve_TSP(USCA312, method = "concorde", control = list(clo = "-V"))
## End(Not run)