Book Image

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

Mining frequent sequential patterns with cSPADE


In contrast to association mining, which only discovers relationships between itemsets, we may be interested in exploring patterns shared among transactions where a set of itemsets occurs sequentially.

One of the most famous frequent sequential pattern mining algorithms is the Sequential PAttern Discovery using Equivalence classes (SPADE) algorithm, which employs the characteristics of a vertical database to perform an intersection on an ID list with an efficient lattice search and allows us to place constraints on mined sequences. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to use cSPADE to mine frequent sequential patterns.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you have to complete the previous recipes by generating transactions with the temporal information and have it stored in the variable trans.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to mine the frequent sequential patterns:

  1. First, you can use the cspade function to generate frequent sequential patterns...