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The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2016
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2016) 8(2); Editor: Michael Lawrence
Abstract
The concept of Pareto frontiers is well-known in economics. Within the database community there exist many different solutions for the specification and calculation of Pareto frontiers, also called Skyline queries in the database context. Slight generalizations like the combination of the Pareto operator with the lexicographical order have been established under the term database preferences. In this paper we present the rPref package which allows to efficiently deal with these concepts within R. With its help, database preferences can be specified in a very similar way as in a state-of-the-art database management system. Our package provides algorithms for an efficient calculation of the Pareto-optimal set and further functionalities for visualizing and analyzing the induced preference order.
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Copyright 2016, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported