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R Data Mining

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R Data Mining

Overview of this book

R is widely used to leverage data mining techniques across many different industries, including finance, medicine, scientific research, and more. This book will empower you to produce and present impressive analyses from data, by selecting and implementing the appropriate data mining techniques in R. It will let you gain these powerful skills while immersing in a one of a kind data mining crime case, where you will be requested to help resolving a real fraud case affecting a commercial company, by the mean of both basic and advanced data mining techniques. While moving along the plot of the story you will effectively learn and practice on real data the various R packages commonly employed for this kind of tasks. You will also get the chance of apply some of the most popular and effective data mining models and algos, from the basic multiple linear regression to the most advanced Support Vector Machines. Unlike other data mining learning instruments, this book will effectively expose you the theory behind these models, their relevant assumptions and when they can be applied to the data you are facing. By the end of the book you will hold a new and powerful toolbox of instruments, exactly knowing when and how to employ each of them to solve your data mining problems and get the most out of your data. Finally, to let you maximize the exposure to the concepts described and the learning process, the book comes packed with a reproducible bundle of commented R scripts and a practical set of data mining models cheat sheets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Epilogue

Set up an rmarkdown report


No more chatting now! Let's move to the actual production of our report. We are going to use RStudio, so let's open it and create a new R markdown report:

We can now specify what kind of document we want to create, which in our case is a ShinyDocument. I write down the title and my name as the author: 

A non-empty template with a file extension as .rmd was just created for us:

I will tell you a bit more about Shiny later when we actually use it, but let me give you just a quick intro to it and R markdown so that you can feel more comfortable in going ahead:

  • R markdown is basically an R package that provides functions to create various kinds of documents hosting both text and R code outputs. It was a father of a prolific family, which nowadays encompasses packages for writing books directly from R to packages for building websites.
  • shiny is an R package that provides functions to build web applications through R codes. It takes care of generating from the R code the...