I found a way to set the relative gap and max time for this pulp solver: https://coin-or.github.io/pulp/technical/solvers.html (see the section about pulp.apis.PULP_CBC_CMD) However, the R version of CBC allows to set an option such that the solver reports the first feasible solution (it's called maxso in rcbc), but I can't see it here. Does anyone have any idea where I could find any documentation about it? It was already extremely difficult to find the above webpage in the pulp documentation, but the option I am looking for is not there, and regarding 'additional options' it only says: options (list) – list of additional options to pass to solver Then what these additional options are, and how they can be set up, I am at a complete loss finding it out. Continue reading...