The meaning of adea is "alternate DEA". This package is devoted to provide the alternative method of DEA described in the paper entitled "Stepwise Selection of Variables in DEA Using Contribution Load", by F. Fernandez-Palacin, M. A. Lopez-Sanchez and M. Munoz-Marquez. Pesquisa Operacional 38 (1), pg. 1-24, 2018.