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This was the motivation, plus having them all in one location to enable you to easily find them, otherwise you would be looking through <a href=\"https:\/\/topepo.github.io\/caret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caret<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tidymodels.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tidymodels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mlr3.mlr-org.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mlr3<\/a> documentation all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The associated <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/FeatureTerminatoR\/vignettes\/feature_terminatoR_howto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vignette<\/a> is the best place to learn about all the features and how to use them in the model. Also, see the supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/StatsGary\/FeatureTerminatoR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GitHub<\/a> for help with installation and getting started. 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