Would it be possible to have more control over the output from mle? My preferences are as follows: A. For normal output (not "--verbose" or "--quiet"): print a simple iteration log giving the iteration number and value of the log-likelihood for the iteration. B. An option to switch off printing of the results for normal output - useful for functions that access mle because it may be necessary to generate a results table containing transformed variables. C. For direct use of mle it is helpful to know the number of function and gradient evaluations, but again I would prefer to be able to suppress this for functions that embed it. D. An accessor $niter which gives the total number of iterations for the last model. I realise that some of the output may be generated by standard settings for either nls or the BFGS maximizer, so any changes might apply to those commands rather than mle. Gordon