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\textbf{\begin{enumerate}}  \textbf{\item Introduction}  \textbf{\end{enumerate}} \textbf{Introduction}  In this vignette we demonstrate how to use the \textbf{lbfgs} R package. \footnote{We are extremely thankful for the advice and support of Dustin Tingley.} The original motivation for writing the package was the lack of a general R implementation of the Orthant-Wise Quasi-Newton Limited-Memory (OWL-QN) optimization algorithm, except in limited-scope contexts.