evoFE

0.1.0

Evolutionary Feature Engineering

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gustavo PereiraFirst published 2026-06-091 releasesCRAN page ↗

Automates feature engineering using evolutionary algorithms inspired by genetic programming. Starting from raw input features, the package evolves candidate transformation recipes through selection, crossover, and mutation, evaluating fitness via cross-validation or train/validation splits with gradient-boosted tree models ('LightGBM' or 'XGBoost'). Built-in transformers include arithmetic, logarithmic, and power operations, interaction terms, target encoding, quantile and log-based binning, principal component analysis, truncated singular value decomposition, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) dimensionality reduction, and minimum spanning tree (MST) graph-based clustering. The evolutionary search yields an optimised feature recipe that can be applied to new data for prediction. Methods are described in McInnes et al. (2018) doi:10.21105/joss.00861, Ke et al. (2017) https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision-framework, Chen and Guestrin (2016) doi:10.1145/2939672.2939785, Gagolewski (2021) doi:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100722, Gagolewski (2026) doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.lumbermark, and Gagolewski (2026) doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.deadwood.

Install

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

install.packages("evoFE", 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-evofe

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-evoFE

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

76.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-10
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 336 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Gustavo Pereira

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Gustavo Pereira

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Package Timeline

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0.1.0Latest
2026-06-09 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

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First published: 2026-06-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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