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Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

<p>The R language is a powerful open source functional programming language. At its core, R is a statistical programming language that provides impressive tools to analyze data and create high-level graphics.</p> <p>This book covers the basics of R by setting up a user-friendly programming environment and performing data ETL in R. Data exploration examples are provided that demonstrate how powerful data visualization and machine learning is in discovering hidden relationships. You will then dive into important machine learning topics, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Machine Learning with R Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Resources for R and Machine Learning
Dataset – Survival of Passengers on the Titanic
Index

Visualizing association rules


Besides listing rules as text, you can visualize association rules, making it easier to find the relationship between itemsets. In the following recipe, we will introduce how to use the aruleViz package to visualize the association rules.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will continue using the Groceries dataset. You need to have completed the previous recipe by generating the pruned rule rules.pruned.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to visualize the association rule:

  1. First, you need to install and load the package arulesViz:

    > install.packages("arulesViz")
    > library(arulesViz)
    
  2. You can then make a scatter plot from the pruned rules:

    > plot(rules.pruned)
    

    The scatter plot of pruned association rules

  3. Additionally, to prevent overplotting, you can add jitter to the scatter plot:

    > plot(rules.pruned, shading="order", control=list(jitter=6))
    

    The scatter plot of pruned association rules with jitters

  4. We then produce new rules with soda on the left...