FeatureTerminatoR

1.0.0

Feature Selection Engine to Remove Features with Minimal Predictive Power

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gary HutsonFirst published 2021-07-141 releasesCRAN page ↗

The aim is to take in data.frame inputs and utilises methods, such as recursive feature engineering, to enable the features to be removed. What this does differently from the other packages, is that it gives you the choice to remove the variables manually, or it automated this process. Feature selection is a concept in machine learning, and statistical pipelines, whereby unimportant, or less predictive variables are eliminated from the analysis, see Boughaci (2018) doi:10.1007/s40595-018-0107-y.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-featureterminator

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-FeatureTerminatoR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-FeatureTerminatoR

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

Health

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Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (9)

ggplot2 caret tibble dplyrstatsutilslatticee1071 randomForest

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Suggests (3)

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Reverse dependencies

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ConfusionTableR

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Gary Hutson

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Authors (1)

Gary Hutson

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-14
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 153 KB
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