An R-based genetic algorithm
During my PhD I wrote a simple but effective genetic algorithm package for R. Because there was a bug recently found, and there is interest in extending the functionality, I have set up a SourceForge project called genalg.
The package provides GA support for binary and real-value chromosomes (and integer chromosomes is something that will be added soon), and allows to use custom evaluation functions. Here is some example code:
# optimize two values to match pi and sqrt(50)
evaluate <- function(string=c()) {
returnVal = NA;
if (length(string) == 2) {
returnVal = abs(string[1]-pi) + abs(string[2]-sqrt(50));
} else {
stop("Expecting a chromosome of length 2!");
}
returnVal
}
monitor <- function(obj) {
# plot the population
xlim = c(obj$stringMin[1], obj$stringMax[1]);
ylim = c(obj$stringMin[2], obj$stringMax[2]);
plot(obj$population, xlim=xlim, ylim=ylim, xlab="pi", ylab="sqrt(50)");
}
rbga.results = rbga(c(1, 1), c(5, 10), monitorFunc=monitor,
evalFunc=evaluate, verbose=TRUE, mutationChance=0.01)
plot(rbga.results)
plot(rbga.results, type="hist")
plot(rbga.results, type="vars")
Additional details
Description
During my PhD I wrote a simple but effective genetic algorithm package for R. Because there was a bug recently found, and there is interest in extending the functionality, I have set up a SourceForge project called genalg.
Identifiers
- GUID
- https://doi.org/10.59350/hfw6p-d6p02
- URL
- https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2007/11/19/r-based-genetic-algorithm.html
Dates
- Issued
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2007-11-19T00:00:00Z
- Updated
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2025-02-15T00:00:00Z