# ppgmmga

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An R package accompanying the paper *Projection pursuit based on Gaussian mixtures and evolutionary algorithms* by Luca Scrucca and Alessio Serafini (2018).

## Installation

You can install the released version of `ppgmmga` from CRAN:

```
install.packages("ppgmmga")
```

or the development version from GitHub:

```
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("luca-scr/ppgmmga", build = TRUE, build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual"))
```

## Usage

The methodology implemented in the package is describe in the paper referenced below.

Usage of the main functions and some examples are included in the vignette **A quick tour of ppgmmga**, which is available as

```
vignette("ppgmmga")
```

## References

Scrucca, L. and Serafini, A. (2019) Projection pursuit based on Gaussian mixtures and evolutionary algorithms. *Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics*, 28:4, 847–860. DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2019.1598871 
URL https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2019.1598871
