Penalization option for likelihood function?

[dylan-munson]

Hello,

I am having some trouble fitting a model (see my discussion #589 ) and it has been suggested to me that I try penalizing the likelihood function. I know there is a penalized option for the MPLE, but it appears to be broken, I get the error Error in rep(0, k - 1) : invalid 'times' argument when I try to pass this argument to ergm(). In any case, it is not clear to me from the documentation if this is the type of penalization option that I would want. Thus I wanted to suggest:

1. Fixing the issue with the current penalization option, and
2. Adding more flexibility or at least documentation as to what the penalization is actually doing.

Thank you.