Hi

> Genetic algorithms / evolutionary computing _are_ already available via CRAN,
> see eg rgenoud and DEoptim.  Wrapping existing ones is also fairly easy; I am
> sometimes use PGAPack from R at work (using non-released code)

thanks for the pointers to the various packages, I'll check them
out. I may still be interested in writing my own though.

> As for Jave, as I understand it, rjava is _the_ common interface. 

Doesn't this go R->Java?  I want to be able to call R from Java, ie Java->R 
.. but I'll take another look at the documentation.


thank you also for the the search suggestions, those will come in very
handy.

Esmail

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