Functions for selecting attributes from a given
    dataset. Attribute subset selection is the process of identifying and
    removing as much of the irrelevant and redundant information as
    possible.

'Rcpp' (free of 'Java'/'Weka') implementation of 'FSelector' entropy-based feature selection 
 algorithms based on an MDL discretization (Fayyad U. M., Irani K. B.: Multi-Interval Discretization of Continuous-Valued Attributes for Classification Learning.
 In 13'th International Joint Conference on Uncertainly in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI93), pages 1022-1029, Chambery, France, 1993.) <https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/93-2/Papers/022.pdf>
 with a sparse matrix support.

Routines for the estimation or simultaneous estimation and variable selection in several functional semiparametric models with scalar responses are provided. These models include the functional single-index model, the semi-functional partial linear model, and the semi-functional partial linear single-index model. Additionally, the package offers algorithms for handling scalar covariates with linear effects that originate from the discretization of a curve. This functionality is applicable in the context of the linear model, the multi-functional partial linear model, and the multi-functional partial linear single-index model.

Import data of tests and questionnaires from FormScanner. FormScanner is an open source software that converts scanned images to data using optical mark recognition (OMR) and it can be downloaded from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/formscanner/>. The spreadsheet file created by FormScanner is imported in a convenient format to perform the analyses provided by the package. These analyses include the conversion of multiple responses to binary (correct/incorrect) data, the computation of the number of corrected responses for each subject or item, scoring using weights,the computation and the graphical representation of the frequencies of the responses to each item and the report of the responses of a few subjects.