R package for parallelized mRMR ensemble feature selection

This package contains a set of function to compute mutual information matrices from continuous, categorical and survival variables. It also contains function to perform feature selection with minimum Redundancy, Maximum Relevance (mRMR) and a new ensemble mRMR technique.

Nicolas De Jay, Simon Papillon-Cavanagh, Catharina Olsen, Gianluca Bontempi, Benjamin Haibe-Kains

URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mRMRe/index.html

Publication: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/18/2365.long