[R] Subset sum problem.

guohao.huang at gmail.com guohao.huang at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 16:03:56 CET 2009


The problem is NP-Complete and the real problem is how you can solve it.
According to the wiki page, you can use the bottom algorithm(Polynomial time 
approximate algorithm) to solve your problems.
If you had trouble with writing R code, you can read ``R-introduction''.

regards

                                                                             
                                                                             
                Guo-Hao Huang


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From: "Geert Janssens" <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:56 PM
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: [R] Subset sum problem.

> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new to the R-project. I was suggested to look into it because I 
> am
> trying to solve the "Subset sum" problem", which basically is:
> Given a set of integers and an integer s, does any non-empty subset sum to 
> s?
> (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem)
>
> I have been searching the web for quite some time now (which is how I
> eventually discovered that my problem is called subset sum), but I can't 
> seem
> to find an easily applicable implementation. I did search the list 
> archive,
> the R website and used the help.search and apropos function. I'm afraid
> nothing obvious showed up for me.
>
> Has anybody tackled this issue before in R ? If so, I would be very 
> grateful
> if you could share your solution with me.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Geert
>
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