GA

An R package for variable selection in regression problems based on genetic algorithm

Côme de Lassus Saint Geniès

Arman Jabbari

Qingan Zhao

Mia Zhong

(in alphabetical order)

IMPORTANT: Since some parts in this package were developed with the help of the function dplyr::sample_n(), please make sure you have installed dplyr package. Also, please make sure you have installed devtools package so that GA can be imported via Github.

If you would like to use the parallelization technique in this package, please also make sure you have installed the following packages: parallel, doParallel, and foreach.

Use the package

Please run the following code in R:

devtools::install_github('arm4nn/GA')
library(GA)

Run the tests in the package

Please make sure you have installed testthat package, and run the following code in R:

testthat::test_package('GA')

Develop the package

The package is welcomed to be refined. Please push the updated package to Github and reinstall it before using.

To update the help pages, please run the following code after changing:

devtools::document()