mlampros / RandomSearchR

Random search in R

The functions in the package can be used to:

• find the optimal parameters of an algorithm using random search
• compare performance of algorithms using summary statistics.

remotes::install_github('mlampros/RandomSearchR')

Once the package is downloaded use ? to read info about each function (i.e. ?random_search_resample). More details can be found in the blog post.

UPDATE 05-02-2020

Docker images of the RandomSearchR package are available to download from my dockerhub account. The images come with Rstudio and the R-development version (latest) installed. The whole process was tested on Ubuntu 18.04. To pull & run the image do the following,

docker pull mlampros/randomsearchr:rstudiodev

docker run -d --name rstudio_dev -e USER=rstudio -e PASSWORD=give_here_your_password --rm -p 8787:8787 mlampros/randomsearchr:rstudiodev

The user can also bind a home directory / folder to the image to use its files by specifying the -v command,

docker run -d --name rstudio_dev -e USER=rstudio -e PASSWORD=give_here_your_password --rm -p 8787:8787 -v /home/YOUR_DIR:/home/rstudio/YOUR_DIR mlampros/randomsearchr:rstudiodev

In the latter case you might have first give permission privileges for write access to YOUR_DIR directory (not necessarily) using,

chmod -R 777 /home/YOUR_DIR

The USER defaults to rstudio but you have to give your PASSWORD of preference (see www.rocker-project.org for more information).

Open your web-browser and depending where the docker image was build / run give,

1st. Option on your personal computer,

http://0.0.0.0:8787 

2nd. Option on a cloud instance,

http://Public DNS:8787

to access the Rstudio console in order to give your username and password.