[R] genetic algorithm

[dr mike]

To my knowledge, two packages have an implementation of an evolutionary, or
genentic, algorithm. Gafit is a curve fitting package and rgenoud for
function minimisation (combined with, iirc, a derivative-based Quasi-Newton
approach for unconstrained problems). One thing, in the S-Plus robust
library, the robust regression package lmRob has an option to use a genetic
algorithm in the resampling scheme to obtain initial S-estimates.

Regards

Mike

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of WeiWei Shi
Sent: 04 February 2005 17:01
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] genetic algorithm

Hi,
I am doing some research on feature selection for classfication problem
using genetic algorithm in a wrapper approach. I am wondering if there is
some package which is already built for this purpose. I was advised before
about dprep package but I don't think it used GA there (if I am wrong,
please correct me!)

Thanks,

Ed

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