ppgmmga

1.3.1

Projection Pursuit Based on Gaussian Mixtures and Evolutionary Algorithms

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Overview

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Maintained by Luca ScruccaFirst published 2018-10-146 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Projection Pursuit (PP) algorithm for dimension reduction based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) for density estimation using Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to maximise an approximated negentropy index. For more details see Scrucca and Serafini (2019) doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1598871.

Install

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

install.packages("ppgmmga", 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("luca-scr/ppgmmga")

Development version from luca-scr/ppgmmga. 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-ppgmmga

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-ppgmmga

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

Health

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Repository

GitHub ↗ luca-scr/ppgmmga

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (8)

Rcpp mclust GA ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1)cli crayonutilsstats

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Luca Scrucca

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Authors (2)

Luca Scrucca

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Alessio Serafini

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Package Timeline

6 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-14
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.3 MB
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