This R package implements a genetic algorithm (GA) for variable selection as described in Kepplinger, D., Filzmoser, P., and Varmuza, K. (2017). Variable selection with genetic algorithms using repeated cross-validation of PLS regression models as fitness measure. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06695.
To install the latest release from CRAN, run the following R code in the R console:
install.packages('gaselect')
The most recent stable version as well as the developing version might not yet be available on CRAN. These can be directly installed from github using the devtools package:
# Install the most recent stable version:
# install_github('dakep/gaselect')
install.packages("gaselect", repos = c('https://dakep.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
# Install the (unstable) develop version:
install_github('dakep/gaselect', ref = 'develop')