Thanks to Chuck Taylor from Insightful for solving the GA help
mystery. According to Chuck,
"What you are seeing is the GUI help page for the dialog reached from
the menus as follows:
Statistics | Regression | Robust MM Linear Regression | Options
This dialog calls lmRobMM, and the discussion refers to the parameters
for lmRobMM.genetic.control. Incidentally, the parameter names are the
same as those for ltsreg.default."
He adds,
"I can tell you that lmRobMM.genetic.control and lmRob.genetic.control
(in the "robust" library) are the only S-PLUS functions in our
distribution with "[gG]enetic" in their names."
Matt Kurbatt tells us,
"...about two years back I modified some sections of GA code
from a book available on the web called S-Poetry,
written by (Patrick? not sure about 1st name) Burns."
Thanks also to Arun Bhattacharyya and Phillip Stafford for their
interest.
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Joseph S. Verducci wrote:
> Along the thread of undocumented assets, I've come across
> "Genetic Algorithm" in the Index of Splus 6.0 Release 2 for Windows.
> This entry describes seven inputs to the algorithm, but there is
> no reference to any function name, and I haven't found it in the gui's.
> Is it buried in some library? Is it really available?
>
> Any information would be much appreciated.
>
> Happy Boxing Day,
>
> Joe Verducci
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