IPOMOEA: Intended package orientation using multi-objective evolutionary algorithm in R

Abstract

Programmers’ lack of familiarity with what is available in packages may prompt them to reinvent the wheel. This is generally the case in any programming language, but it is a matter of madness with a language described as difficult even by professionals supporting it such as R. In R Cookbook, says: “But R can be frustrating. It’s not obvious how to accomplish many tasks, even simple ones.” IPOMOEA is a code that has been written to mitigate this problem. It helps R language developers determine how to perform a specific task, by automating the search in R site for all packages that are likely to contribute to the task implementation. After that, IPOMOEA determines a partial set of results to be the intended package using multi-objective evolutionary algorithm NSGA-II . Not only does it specify the intended package, but also it helps orient programmers and manage packages. Keywords: