DEoptim

2.2-8

Global Optimization by Differential Evolution

51packages depend

225.7Kdownloads / year

55.7%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Katharine MullenFirst published 2005-08-0930 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements the Differential Evolution algorithm for global optimization of a real-valued function of a real-valued parameter vector as described in Mullen et al. (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i06.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DEoptim", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ArdiaD/DEoptim")

Development version from ArdiaD/DEoptim. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-deoptim

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DEoptim

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ardiad/deoptim

31Stars

17Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

192Commits

7Contributors

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192 commits · Last activity 2022-11-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

parallel

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

foreach iterators colorspacelatticeparallelly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

51direct

81indirect

and 3 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Katharine Mullen

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0-0

Authors (4)

Katharine Mullen

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0-0

David Ardia

Author

Brian Peterson

Author · added in 2.0-7

Joshua Ulrich

Author · added in 2.0-7

Contributors (1)

Kris Boudt

Contributor · added in 2.2-3

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-08-09
Total releases: 30 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 64 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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