On 20 April 2008 at 09:22, esmail bonakdarian wrote: | I am trying to implement a simple Genetic Algorithm using some of the | functions of R (such as lm). I am a total newbie with regard to R, but | not programming or GAs.
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). As for Jave, as I understand it, rjava is _the_ common interface. I prefer C++ and use RCpp (now on r-forge.r-project.org) and there are parallel discussions going on regarding Swig. | PS:Does anyone know how to do an effective search for R in google (or | other search engines). The fact that this is a single letters seems i) Use the dedicated front-ends to searching as eg RSiteSearch("foo") from within R, or ii) combine your search terms with terms like 'r-help' or 'r-devel' | PPS: I there a USENET group dedicated to R? There are several lists/usenet gateways like eg gmane. See the R FAQ/ Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel